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From: kludge@gitpyr.gatech.EDU (Scott Dorsey)
Newsgroups: net.jokes,comp.terminals
Subject: Re: Brain-damaged Terminal Contest
Message-ID: <2675@gitpyr.gatech.EDU>
Date: Wed, 19-Nov-86 20:47:09 EST
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Posted: Wed Nov 19 20:47:09 1986
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Keywords: brain-damage, video display terminals, all-time worst
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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

      [ reasons follow ]

  If this is anything like the old 2000 I was once forced to use, the
tilde is used to signal the beginning of an 'escape' code.  Any program
that produced or required tildes was in serious trouble.

-- 
Scott Dorsey
ICS Programming Lab (Where old terminals go to die),  Rich 110,
    Georgia Institute of Technology, Box 36681, Atlanta, Georgia 30332
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