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From: larry@kitty.UUCP (Larry Lippman)
Newsgroups: net.jokes,comp.terminals
Subject: Brain-damaged Terminal Contest
Message-ID: <1438@kitty.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 18-Nov-86 13:16:56 EST
Article-I.D.: kitty.1438
Posted: Tue Nov 18 13:16:56 1986
Date-Received: Tue, 18-Nov-86 22:03:53 EST
Organization: Recognition Research Corp., Clarence, NY
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Keywords: brain-damage, video display terminals, all-time worst
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	I was doing some housecleaning in a storeroom the other day, and
came across a Hazeltine 1400 video display terminal - complete with manual.
I looked in the manual, and came to the conclusion that this has to be
the most brain-damaged terminal I have ever seen!
	I thought it might be an amusing aside to see if anyone knows of
a terminal dumber that this one.  I nominate this terminal for the All Time
Most Brain-damaged Terminal Award because:

1.	It has no bell.  Neither audible nor visible.

2.	It displays upper-case only and has NO video attributes.

3.	While it displays lower-case, it does so by mapping to upper-case -
	which in itself is not uncommon for older terminal.  But get this:
	it generates lower-case characters by _weird_ key mappings; i.e.,
	`a' is CTRL-SHIFT-1, `b' is CTRL-SHIFT-2, `j' is CTRL-SHIFT-:,
	`k' is CTRL-SHIFT-;, `p' is CTRL-0, `q' is CTRL-1, etc.  That's real
	intuitive, huh?

4.	It has `cursor down', `cursor right' and `cursor left'.  It has
	NO `cursor up'.  These are _commands_; it has no cursor keys.

5.	CTRL-S is `display test pattern' and CTRL-Q is `address cursor'.
	Real nice x-on/x-off handling...

	Can any terminal be dumber than this one???

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