You have VT-100s!? We had VT-05bs, and we LIKED it! We got VT-100s a year later when I was in 10th grade. That year I learned Pascal, BASIC, and PDP11-34 assembly. And discovered a huge security hole. Which DEC patched, breaking assembly. Which I fixed. I'm a contributor on RSTS/E v8. I was 16.
For a summer job I learned to program in Fortran on a VT100. While debugging, I discovered a sequence of characters that when sent to the terminal would cause it to crash and restart itself. This only worked on the genuine VT100s. The clones handled the sequence properly.
Did you ever do the trick of making the RK07 hard drive heads move back and forth just enough that the machine would "walk forward," and if you left it running all night it might move far enough to unplug itself, causing a truly legendary head crash?
A company I worked for had IBM 3151 terminals on old Adtran modems at each production facility up through about 2009, when I replaced them with network links and desktops. I've got a Heathkit H-89 that is essentially a terminal with an extra Z80 board for local CP/M.
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Our hospital also used them at the turn of the century and they were prone to catching fire.
Why, no, officer, it's merely theoretical!