Tektronix 6130 Engineering Workstation

From: Frank McConnell <fmc_at_reanimators.org>
Date: Sun Jan 11 14:57:50 1998

"Zane H. Healy" <healyzh_at_ix.netcom.com> wrote:
> There is also a terminal with it, a "Ann Arbor XL Series" that connects via
> a Serial line. Does anyone have any idea what kind of terminal this is?
> It's very wierd, it's the only ASCII terminal that I've seen which is a
> portrait-mode terminal! Is this some kind of VT-100 compatible or
> something? The only thing I've ever seen that even comes close is some of
> the old Macintosh monitors.

It's probably a flavor of the Ann Arbor Ambassador terminal. I
remember them as being in somewhat widespread use by Unix folks in the
early-to-mid 1980s, their major feature being the number of lines of
source you could fit on the screen. They pretty much fell out of
favor across the mid-1980s with the proliferation of bit-mapped
displays.

-Frank McConnell
Received on Sun Jan 11 1998 - 14:57:50 GMT