13 Apr
2012
13 Apr
'12
1:12 p.m.
On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 6:46 PM, Richard <legalize at xmission.com> wrote:
The Terminals Wiki is open for public browsing!
<http://terminals.classiccmp.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page>
Very cool! congrats!
My intention was to create a single reference site for
everything we
can find about terminals.
Right now, account creation is by request only, but I will open it up
for more public editing gradually over time (I am mostly concerned
about spambots, I don't want this wiki to become a spam ghetto like so
many others).
I'm trying to make this an authoritative source, not just a hodge-podge
of unsubstantiated opinions. ?To that end, everything I've put into
the wiki so far is sourced from technical documentation (linked to
manx and bitsavers and other sources) or from periodicals on Google
books like Computerworld, InfoWorld, Network World, PC Mag, etc.
Need some help with documenting Tandberg terminals? I have a couple of
the TDV2200 series model, and was trained to repair TDV2200's and
TDV1200's in my first job. I still have the repair documentation.
These terminals were often used as terminals for Norsk Data
minicomputers, so a large part of the documentation available today is
in Norwegian.
Obviously there is tons more information that could be
added and that
will happen over time, but there is enough there now to be useful in
looking up weird terminals that you might encounter in the wild.
One nice thing about Google books is that they index the advertising
as much as they index the articles. ?I'm not sure that traditional
search databases like Nexus/Lexus do that. ?It has meant that I have
been able to find lots of information on terminals through
advertising, including some technical specifications and photos.
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