VT180

{{Short description|Personal computer produced by Digital Equipment Corporation}}

{{Infobox information appliance

| name = DEC VT180

| image = DEC VT180.jpg

| manufacturer = DEC

| type = Personal Computer

| releasedate = {{Start date|1982}}

| cpu = Z80

| display = {{convert|12|in|cm|abbr=on}} CRT
80x24 characters

| input =

| connectivity =

| memory = 64 KB RAM

| sound =

| predecessor =

| successor = Rainbow 100

| weight =

| CPUspeed = 2 MHz

| memory card = 5.25-inch floppy disks

| lifespan =

| discontinued = 1983

| os = CP/M

}}

The VT180 is a personal computer produced by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) of Maynard, Massachusetts, USA.{{Cite book

| title = VT180 Series Technical Manual| author = DEC Educational Services| publisher = Digital Equipment Corporation| date=February 1983}}{{Cite web |title=DigiBarn Systems: DEC Robin (VT-180) & documentation |url=https://www.digibarn.com/collections/systems/dec-robin/ |access-date=2023-02-20 |website=www.digibarn.com}}

Introduced in early 1982, the CP/M-based VT180 was DEC's entry-level microcomputer. "VT180" is the unofficial name for the combination of the VT100 computer terminal and VT18X option. The VT18X includes a 2 MHz Zilog Z80 microprocessor and 64K RAM on two circuit boards that fit inside the terminal, and two external 5.25-inch floppy disk drives with room for two more in an external enclosure.{{Cite news | url=https://archive.org/stream/byte-magazine-1983-06/1983_06_BYTE_08-06_16-Bit_Designs#page/n105/mode/2up | title=A DEC on Every Desk? | work=BYTE | date=June 1983 | access-date=5 February 2015 | author=Snyder, John J. Ph.D. | page=104–106}} The VT180 was codenamed "Robin".

Digital later released a full-fledged personal computer known as the Rainbow 100 as the successor to Robin.{{Cite web |title=DigiBarn Systems: DEC Rainbow 100 |url=https://www.digibarn.com/collections/systems/DEC-Rainbow100/page_01.htm |access-date=2023-02-20 |website=www.digibarn.com}}

When Digital ended the VT100 terminal family in 1983,{{cite web |author=Richard Shuford |date=1995–2005 |title=DEC Video Terminals |url=http://www.cs.utk.edu/~shuford/terminal/dec.html |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090605012325/http://www.cs.utk.edu/~shuford/terminal/dec.html |archivedate=2009-06-05}}{{cite web |date=August 1984 |title=VT220 Programmer Reference Manual |url=http://vt100.net/docs/vt220-rm/ |publisher=Digital Equipment Corporation}} it also discontinued the VT180. No direct replacement was offered, although the Rainbow 100 eventually provided a superset of Robin's functionality.{{cn|date=January 2023}}