12 Jul
2011
12 Jul
'11
3:36 p.m.
On 12 Jul 2011 at 14:58, Rick Bensene wrote:
Yeah, they were good (albeit somewhat unreliable)
terminals, but from
a styling standpoint, the Ann Arbor Ambassadors were...well, fugly,
IMHO. I too spent many hours behind these terminals (Tektronix bought
tons of them..which was strange, since Tek made its own terminals),
and I did like the crisp display, and the wide mode. Made it great
for viewing FORTRAN complier listing outputs from the CDC Cyber 73.
My favorite was an early 80s Tandberg terminal. Controlled-contrast
keyboard, beautiful display, very solid. I had a TDV-2000-series
terminal on loan in my office. I was very sad when it left and was
replaced by a Beehive VT220 clone.
--Chuck