Will Jennings wrote:
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> Not to mention that I find them ugly, ugly, ugly!
Burn the witch! Those all-in-one designs are style classics, like my
TeleVideo 910+ and 912.
On the subject of terminals, I've just acquired two more. The first is a
Lynwood j500, dating from 1990, a colour VT220-compatible graphical
terminal with the largest number of custom keys I have ever seen on a
keyboard. It also takes a mouse, though I've not got one, or the
specification for it. This black beast used to be in service with police
forces in the UK, but they're now being replaced by PCs (boo, hiss).
Lynwood also specialised in TEMPEST equipment for MoD sites, but it's
years since I've used any of their other terminals. It is powered by a
Z8000.
The second one is a cute little MICROSCRIBE T.E. (Text Editor), a
1984-vintage terminal by a company from Wales that used to be called
Terminal Technology. They appear to still be around and called
Microscribe, though the website at
http://www.microscribe.co.uk/ claims
they started in 1985. Perhaps they mean that their current name dates
from then -- I haven't asked yet. This has a 40-character, 2-line LCD
display and either acts as a document editor with its whopping 10KB
memory, or a straightforward mini terminal. We used to use them to
monitor our embedded systems. This contains an HD6303 processor, which I
was delighted to find is documented all over the place on the Web, as it
was also used in the Psion II. This came with a manual, which I tried to
scan and convert to a PDF last night, but the 20 pages produced a
shocking 5MB file. I think I'll revert to my usual technique of putting
an HTML version online.
Received on Thu May 24 2001 - 16:00:36 BST