13 Jul
2011
13 Jul
'11
4:03 a.m.
On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 12:36 AM, Chuck Guzis <cclist at sydex.com> wrote:
On 12 Jul 2011 at 14:58, Rick Bensene wrote:
I still have a ND 320 terminal (aka Tandberg TDV 2200/9 S) it is
connected as console to the ND Satellite/9 minicomputer I have.
The keyboard on the Tandberg terminals is one of the best keyboards I have used.
I would like to have a Tandberg TDV 1200 terminal, the follow-up to
the 2000-series. It had better VT-220 compatability and all models had
the black-on-white screen. Nice.
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Regards,
Torfinn Ingolfsen,
Norway
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.