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From: love@f103a.UUCP (love)
Newsgroups: comp.terminals,comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Searching for the "ideal" terminal
Message-ID: <825@f103a.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 4-May-87 12:24:00 EDT
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Posted: Mon May  4 12:24:00 1987
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In article <1314@motown.UUCP> jmr@motown.UUCP (John M. Ritter) writes:
>We're looking for the "perfect" terminal for Unix applications and
>programming. Everybody seems to be making standard 24 x 80 character
>screens, however I'm looking for something different...


I'm working with a Facit Twist terminal, that at a first glare may look
like any other terminal on the market. 
But you may actually twist the terminal screen and get 72*80 characters
on the screen, at the same time. Of course, the characters are pretty small
in this mode (7*16 pixels on a 15" screen), but since it has a refresh
rate of 65 Hz, you'll get a perfect picture with no flickering at all, even
with black characters on a white background. When you are programming with 
the terminal in this mode, you have a tremendous view over what you are 
doing. The terminal has a complete VT100 "instruction" set plus some extra 
screen handling sequenses.

Now the problems:
1) It has some bugs in the software that may result that you suddenly can 
   only type upper case letters. You can get out of it by fiddeling with the 
   Caps Lock key, but it is still pretty annoying. This occurs about once 
   an hour.
2) To keep the picture stable with such small charcers you will need some 
   really hot stuff in the monitor to avoid flickering. This means that the 
   screen has the highest radiation level of all the terminals on the swedish 
   market. Maybe you'll get tanned after a 20 hour session? Who knows? :-)
3) I have no idea how widespread this terminal is outside Sweden. It is 
   sold by Ericson, that took over the Facit Corp. a few yers ago, and 
   Ericson is a multinational thing. But I still haven't seen the Twist 
   terminal in any other country than my own (== Sweden).

If somebody out there is intrested in more info about this beast, please 
email me, or give me a call, and I'll send you a manual.

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