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From: mats@forbrk.UUCP (Mats Wichmann)
Newsgroups: comp.terminals,comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Facit ("ideal?") Twist
Message-ID: <317@forbrk.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 6-May-87 10:37:02 EDT
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Posted: Wed May  6 10:37:02 1987
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Reply-To: mats@forbrk.UUCP (Mats Wichmann)
Organization: Fortune Systems/Berkeley, Berkeley CA
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In article <825@f103a.UUCP> love@f103a.UUCP (Love Feuer) writes:
>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
... ... ...
>   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).
>
Was available from Facit in the U.S. two or more years ago - I have
one and it is at the top of the list among my "favorite" terminals.  Most 
everyone I have shown it to hates the keyboard (which I love), because 
it has less key travel than most available in the US (but I think it is 
in line with the rather stringent German standards, or so I was told by 
the Facit salesman). It is my understanding that the terminal was actually
designed as a joint effort between Facit and Datamedia, and is (was)
available from Datamedia (if they still exist).  This is the ONLY
terminal (as opposed to bit-mapped display) that I have worked with that 
can comfortably be used in inverse video, especially with the white
phosphor (in other words, black letters on white background).

/mats wichmann,		Fortune Systems (Berkeley)