On Tuesday 29 March 2016 14:20:35 Mihai Popescu wrote: > Hello, > > This question is somehow off topic but I know there are some readers > here old enough to shade some light in this matter. > I want to get and idea of what was or is an old true hardware UNIX > terminal. I have searched google, but the word "terminal" associated > with UNIX points most of the time to what we know today as UNIX shell. > If someone, please, can show me a doc or explain a little bit what was > a terminal at that moment back in time. I know that it was some kind > of hardware, maybe RS232 related, used to connect to some main frame. > But I am unable to find the details. I even lack some tech words to > search deeper on the web. > > Thank you.
Hazeltine 2000 anyone? http://terminals.classiccmp.org/wiki/index.php/Hazeltine_2000 When I started building my own Z80 system I got a used Hazeltine 2000. As soon as I saw it was only capable of capital chars I slaughtered it and replaced the boards with my own V24 terminal card on a 160x100mm board. It was also based on a Z80. The keyboard was a reprogrammed (EPROM) parallel WANG keyboard - it was also based on a Z80. Eike
