11 Jan
1998
11 Jan
'98
6:57 a.m.
"Zane H. Healy" <healyzh(a)ix.netcom.com> wrote:
There is also a terminal with it, a "Ann Arbor XL
Series" that connects via
a Serial line. Does anyone have any idea what kind of terminal this is?
It's very wierd, it's the only ASCII terminal that I've seen which is a
portrait-mode terminal! Is this some kind of VT-100 compatible or
something? The only thing I've ever seen that even comes close is some of
the old Macintosh monitors.
It's probably a flavor of the Ann Arbor Ambassador terminal. I
remember them as being in somewhat widespread use by Unix folks in the
early-to-mid 1980s, their major feature being the number of lines of
source you could fit on the screen. They pretty much fell out of
favor across the mid-1980s with the proliferation of bit-mapped
displays.
-Frank McConnell