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thumb|DEC VT220 in use at The National Museum of Computing

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thumb|DEC VT220 in use at The National Museum of Computing

The VT200 series is a family of computer terminals introduced by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) in November 1983. The VT220 was the basic version, a text-only version with multi-lingual capabilities. The VT240 added monochrome ReGIS vector graphics support to the base model, while the VT241 did the same in color. The 200 series replaced the successful VT100 series, providing more functionality in a much smaller unit with a much smaller and lighter keyboard. Like the VT100, the VT200 series implemented a large subset of ANSI X3.64. Among its major upgrades was a number of international character sets, as well as the ability to define new character sets.

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