Subject: Re: Hazeltine 1400 info?
From: "Chuck Guzis" <cclist at sydex.com>
Date: Fri, 01 Jun 2007 08:27:23 -0700
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" <cctalk at
classiccmp.org>
On 31 May 2007 at 18:19, Allison wrote:
The 1400 series was after the 1500 series and was
effectively a cost
reduced (cheaper to build and sell) terminal. The 1400 was circa
1976-78 or so.
Am I the only one who actually used one of these and hated it? I had
one hooked to an MDS800 development system. For the time, they were
inexpensive, but there were better terminals around--and the use of a
displayable character (tilde) as the escape code leadin made things
more trouble than the terminals were worth. I think I may even have
the code for a full-screen editor written in PL/M somewhere.
I was working for Hazeltine terminals group at the time, one look at the
1400s and I left. There were a few things about it that suggested with
better firmware it could be nice but didn't happen.
My experience lead to buying a H19, a decent tube that I still have.
Allison