17 Nov
2012
17 Nov
'12
8:27 a.m.
> I knew that, but try arguing with a customer about
that. The
> 1400--one of the more awful, but cheap, terminals in the terminal
> universe. For some odd reason, it used tilde (hex 7E) as the escape
> lead-in character.
H1400 was ANSI just like VT100 (in Vt100 mode) and
many others. The
escape sequences were ANSI plus private (hazelitne additions).
You may be thinking of Wyse on the memory thing.
More likely the 1500, which definitely did use a ~ leadin for what for
most terminals would be escape sequences. (The 1420 used an escape
leadin but was otherwise completely unlike X3.64 or X3.41.) The 1510
and 1520 were switchable. The 1552, well, in the words of termcap:
# Note: the h1552 appears to be the first Hazeltine terminal which
# is not braindamaged. It has tildes and backprimes and everything!
(The 1500, in addition to using ~ as a leadin, displayed ` as a solid
quad rather than a backprime. I forget whether it filled up the whole
character cell; I think I still have a Hazeltine of some stripe, and if
so and if it still works, I can check what it does in these respects
within the next few days.)
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