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From: jay@metran.UUCP (Jay Ts)
Newsgroups: comp.terminals
Subject: Lear Siegler ADM-3 terminal
Keywords: Time Warp.  HELP, I'M TRAPPED IN AN UPPERCASE ONLY TERMINAL!
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Date: 30 Mar 91 18:02:24 GMT
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Organization: Metran Technology, Tampa, Florida
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Hi!

I have recently aquired a Lear Siegler ADM-3 terminal.

Date of manufacture: July 1978 (printed on the CRT's backside)
Serial number: 40478.

Note that this is the ADM-3, not the 3a, and is UPPERCASE ONLY!!!

Does anyone know where I can get the ROM for the lowercase character set,
so that I can upgrade it to a 3a?

(I'm sorry if I'm a little late making this request :-)

It seems that there must be thousands of nonoperational ADM-3a's sitting
around in basements and closets around the world.  Perhaps someone can
"liberate" a lowercase ROM for me...

As I understand it, the lowercase ROM is socketted and is on the PC board
near the brightness control knob.  Upgrading the ADM-3 to the 3a involves
putting in the ROM and flipping the lowercase enable DIP switch near the
back of the PC board.  --> Someone please correct me if I'm wrong. <--

Also, I was aghast to find the adm3 terminfo entry on UNIX Sys V/386 does
not handle curses well!  vi, for example, has to use open mode.  Now, I seem
to recall being able to use a screen editor on a UNIX 32V system with an
adm3a sometime in 1981, so it is/was possible, *right*?

Did we lose something from UNIX between versions 32V and V 3.2? :-)

In case you haven't figured it out by now, I was given this terminal for
free, and have been having a lot of fun getting it to work.  ... And you just
can't beat the ADM-3's classy, futuristic-looking two-tone blue fiberglass
enclosure.  Or having to use CTRL-H to backspace and CTRL-I for tab! :-)

				Jay Ts
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P.S.  This is NOT an April Fool's joke!  I'm serious!!!