rbj@icst-cmr.arpa (Root Boy Jim) (05/08/87)
I'm working with a Facit Twist terminal, that at a first glare may look
like any other terminal on the market.
3) I have no idea how widespread this terminal is outside Sweden. It is
sold by Ericson, that took over the Facit Corp. a few yers ago, and
Ericson is a multinational thing. But I still haven't seen the Twist
terminal in any other country than my own (== Sweden).
We have a few here, and they have a `Mime' label on them. They're kind of
neat, but at the small character resolution the comma and period are hard
to distinguish. I suppose colon and semicolon share this problem as well.
I am also interested in any terminal besides Ann Arbor which has
significantly more than 24 lines. Please don't mention blit class
terminals which require special hardware of software.
(Root Boy) Jim "Just Say Yes" Cottrell <rbj@icst-cmr.arpa>gwyn@brl-smoke.UUCP (05/08/87)
In article <7290@brl-adm.ARPA> rbj@icst-cmr.arpa (Root Boy Jim) writes: >I am also interested in any terminal besides Ann Arbor which has >significantly more than 24 lines. Please don't mention blit class >terminals which require special hardware of software. Although one CAN (and should when possible) use AT&T (formerly Teletype) model 5620 or 630 Dot-Mapped Display terminals with special host support software, they work just fine as dumb X3.64 CRTs also. If you know for a fact that you can never use them in their "layers" mode of operation, then they're probably not quite what you want for dumb large-screen operation, but if you expect to be able to use them part of the time in layers mode they're probably your best choice. I use mine in ordinary CRT mode quite often, even though I have layers available (layers mode has lower effective throughput for simple text display).
dc@sdd.UUCP (Daniel Corbett) (05/12/87)
Try the W60 terminal from Wyse Technology... It has 43 lines and 132 columns (in a readable font even). Distinguishing comma's and dots are a breeze in this mode. Everything is a tad small, but excellent resolution. The resolution on this monitor is significantly better than all other wyse's that I have tried, as well as several other terminals: Wyse50, 350, tvi955, Falco 5500, Convergent PT, GT. I highly recommend it! Daniel Corbett