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From: sbg@f109a.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.terminals,comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Facit ("ideal?") Twist
Message-ID: <17@f109a.f109a.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 11-May-87 03:54:18 EDT
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Posted: Mon May 11 03:54:18 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 16-May-87 14:46:38 EDT
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Reply-To: sbg@f109a.UUCP (Stefan B. Grinneby (Bladesong))
Organization: FDC/SC Sweden
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In article <317@forbrk.UUCP> mats@forbrk.UUCP (Mats Wichmann) writes:
>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. 
>... ... ...
>>   Ericson is a multinational thing. But I still haven't seen the Twist 
>>   terminal in any other country than my own (== Sweden).
>>
>...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).

At the Swedish Defense Computer Central User Support Center (whew! :-), where
I for the time being happen to be working, the Facit Twist is the standard
terminal we supply with the systems. People usually like the Twist, since it
has large and nice letters. But: After a couple of years, the screen fades. It
doesn't help opening (gasp!) the terminal and frobnicating the brigthness-knob.
I don't know if this is a result of the flouroscent stuff in the ray-tube going
stale, or what, but we get a lot of telephone calls from people who wonder why
their terminal is so dark. This problem occurs even faster (~1 year) if people
use the black-on-white text, and forget to setup the Twist with the screen-
saving option. The screen-saver helps a little, but to really save the screen
you've got to turn the terminal off completely.

BTW, I have noticed that people who use the black-on-white style setup with the
Twist usually are nicely tanned in the face. Probably a total coincidence.
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