New find, Edax PDP 11/23 system available.

On Fri, 2007-01-05 at 22:02 -0500, Ethan Dicks wrote: Have you heard of the Facit "Twist"? Facit was, I believe, a Swedish company, made calculators, paper tape punches... some other miscellany, and this excellent terminal. The terminal when seen from the side was shaped like an L, with the CRT tube itself standing (in a plastic casing, of course) on the vertical part of it. You could grab the CRT and twist it 90 degrees. The terminal would send an escape code to the system, and the system would redraw the screen with the altered aspect ratio. It was an early terminal to use a white phosphor, and I believe it was scanned at 65Hz. On Tuesday I'm going to a museum which has one of these...somewhere... - I can try to get a picture of it, if you like. Norsk Data computers supported them natively in the USER-ENVIRONMENT and NOTIS office package. A friend of mine who spent time around the "Studio 54" (Named after the serial number of the NORD-10 they had been given) computer science student group at the University, walked in and saw two fellow students hacking away using a brand new Facit Twist donated to them by Norsk Data. "Oh, neat, a Twist!", he exclaimed, and immediately walked over and rotated the CRT. Unfortunately, they were in the kernel debugger, a decidedly non-screen-oriented program - the terminal sent its escape code, and (IIRC) the machine immediately crashed. -Tore :)