anne@hall.cray.com (Anne Chenette) (07/06/88)
I need to know the manufacturers of some terminals for copyright-type
reasons. What I have is a list of terminal names or "nicknames":
Ampex 230
Beehive Superbee
Concept-100
Hazeltine (terminal)
Heathkit h19
Lear-Siegler (LSI?) ADM-3a
Microterm ACT-IV
Microterm Mime
NCR 7900
Perkin Elmer Owl
Tektronix 4010 and 4025
Teleray 1061
Televideo (TVI) 912
Wyse 50, 75, and 350
What I need is:
(1) the real name of each terminal,
(2) the name of the company that manufactures it, and
(3) the city the company is in, if the company still exists
(the company's phone number would be even better)
Can anyone help me out? If so, please send mail (no need to clutter the net
with this silliness....).
Thanks,
Anne Chenette
...!sun!tundra!hall!anne
or
anne%prolix.cray.com@uc.msc.umn.edu
P.S. In case you're dying of curiosity, these terminals are all
mentioned on the terminfo(4) man page (or associated documentation).
--
Anne Chenette
...!ihnp4!cray!anne
or
anne%prolix.cray.com@uc.msc.umn.edujamesp@dadla.LA.TEK.COM (James T. Perkins) (07/11/88)
Sorry to post this to thousands of computers across the world, but I couldn't
reach Anne by direct mail.
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To: anne@cray.com (Anne Chenette)
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Subject: Re: Who makes these terminals?
In-Reply-To: Your message of 5 Jul 88 21:12:37 GMT.
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Date: 08 Jul 88 16:16:28 PDT (Fri)
From: James T. Perkins <jamesp@dadla.LA.TEK.COM>
> Ampex 230
Ampex makes casette tapes. They make terminals too?
> Beehive Superbee
> Concept-100
Ancient terminal.
> Hazeltine (terminal)
Hazeltine used to make terminals, then they stopped. Esprit Systems
(somewhere in New York) was created by disgruntled employees that
still wanted to build terminals.
> Heathkit h19
Heathkit provided these homebuilt terminals.
> Lear-Siegler (LSI?) ADM-3a
No, Lear-Siegler, the furnace manufacturer.
> Microterm ACT-IV
> Microterm Mime
> NCR 7900
National Cash Register Corp.
> Perkin Elmer Owl
> Tektronix 4010 and 4025
This one I know! Tektronix, Inc., Beaverton, OR. I don't know who
you'd call, exactly (this is a sizeable company). I called around for
about ten minutes to get you this information: you might try
locating your local Tektronix Field Office and ask them (look in your
closest metropolitan area phonebook), or call the nationwide Tek
toll-free number 1-800-835-9433 and the Secretary should be able to
help you. Also, 1-503-235-7202 (toll call) will get you the Media
Services people (ask for Jan Foster), and you should be able to get
documentation on the terminals of some sort.
Tek 4010s are old graphics terminals that lead the way for direct
storage vector graphics. The Tek 4025 was Tek's first (very) succesful
raster graphics terminal. We still have quite a few of them in our
labs (4010s, we have naught). The 4025s speak a very strange language
and have no cursor-motion commands, so they are not terminals of
choice around here. But they're still popular for graphics and
especially for storing pages and pages and pages and pages of
debugging output (you can scroll 'way back). Tek has hacked a version
of vi so that vi can be used with 4025s, but curses and dpy are
incompatible with the 4025. The terminal sitting on my desk is a Tek
4105, which is a much more powerful ansi/graphics terminal.
> Teleray 1061
> Televideo (TVI) 912
Televideo
> Wyse 50, 75, and 350
Wyse
Hope this helps, Anne.
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