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From: avr@mordred.cs.purdue.edu.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.terminals
Subject: Re: Brain-damaged Terminal Contest
Message-ID: <1140@mordred.cs.purdue.edu>
Date: Wed, 19-Nov-86 17:16:39 EST
Article-I.D.: mordred.1140
Posted: Wed Nov 19 17:16:39 1986
Date-Received: Thu, 20-Nov-86 06:42:09 EST
References: <1438@kitty.UUCP>
Organization: Department of Computer Science, Purdue University
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Keywords: brain-damage, video display terminals, all-time worst
Summary: blits give me brain-damage

In article <1438@kitty.UUCP>, larry@kitty.UUCP (Larry Lippman) writes:
> 
> 	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:

	Don't know about Most brain-damaged, but the BLIT (dmd 5620, AKA
Bell Labs Intelligent Terminal (I think) -- it should stand for BLAT --
Bell Labs Annoying Terminal). I'm on a BLAT right now, and some of it's
"features" are:

	1. No known termcap escape for reverse vide -- if someone knows it,
	   please give it to me
	2. Bad mangling of ^S/^Q with emacs (gosling's, anyway).
	3. Most infuriating feature -- if too much text is being printed,
	it just hangs and beeps forever. Makes it tough to page through
	large files. I usually feel like putting my fist through the
	screen when this happens.


	Sigh .. 

	Then again, there are regent100s.

					Andrew Royappa