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From: firth@sei.cmu.edu (Robert Firth)
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Subject: Re: Brain-damaged Terminal Contest
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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!
> 
> 	Can any terminal be dumber than this one???

Well, I nominate the terminal I'm now using.  This started life
as a standard DEC terminal, until the hackers got hold of it

    . The Tilde key generates a funny escape code.  The key
      called 'hold screen' generates a tilde

    . The 'set up' key generates an escape code.  There is NO
      way to change the terminal characteristics - not even to
      get reverse video - without invoking a huge and totally
      undocumented window manager

    . The numeric pad is mapped to escape codes.  You guessed it -
      no way to remap any key

And the ULTIMATE prize for total lunacy: the 'Do' key breaks into
the Unixoid kernel of your workstation and you're at adb command
level.  Can you say user-surly?  I thought you could.