Will Jennings wrote: Burn the witch! Those all-in-one designs are style classics, like my TeleVideo 910+ and 912. On the subject of terminals, I've just acquired two more. The first is a Lynwood j500, dating from 1990, a colour VT220-compatible graphical terminal with the largest number of custom keys I have ever seen on a keyboard. It also takes a mouse, though I've not got one, or the specification for it. This black beast used to be in service with police forces in the UK, but they're now being replaced by PCs (boo, hiss). Lynwood also specialised in TEMPEST equipment for MoD sites, but it's years since I've used any of their other terminals. It is powered by a Z8000. The second one is a cute little MICROSCRIBE T.E. (Text Editor), a 1984-vintage terminal by a company from Wales that used to be called Terminal Technology. They appear to still be around and called Microscribe, though the website at http://www.microscribe.co.uk/ claims they started in 1985. Perhaps they mean that their current name dates display and either acts as a document editor with its whopping 10KB memory, or a straightforward mini terminal. We used to use them to monitor our embedded systems. This contains an HD6303 processor, which I was delighted to find is documented all over the place on the Web, as it was also used in the Psion II. This came with a manual, which I tried to scan and convert to a PDF last night, but the 20 pages produced a shocking 5MB file. I think I'll revert to my usual technique of putting an HTML version online.

You don't like their classic, rounded lines, Will? Remember, the ADM3 was one of the standard terminals of the period. That's probably why they're so popular. Our 1976 MAI 1200 uses an ADM3 in MAI blue paint. On Thu, 24 May 2001, Will Jennings wrote: M. K. Peirce Rhode Island Computer Museum, Inc. Shady Lea, Rhode Island "Casta est quam nemo rogavit." - Ovid