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Not all microprocessor controlled terminals lose... in a previous job,
I worked with Visual 200 terminals-24x80, lots of PF keys, keypad,
smooth scroll (REAL smooth scroll, by pixels), nice heavy feel...

AND IT DID 19200 baud W/O FLOW CONTROL!

It was PERFECT at 9600baud, but at 19200 it didn't scan the keyboard
as often. This was tested by driving it with a tight machine language
loop on a 6Mhz z80 system, directly controlling the UART. You got one
keyscan per 500-600 characters. Enough, but a bit confusing when
trying to pause it. (We used ^S/^Q as HUMAN flow control - when the
USER couldn't keep up, hit ^S to pause it.)

This terminal had a 2Mhz Z80 inside, or maybe two of them... a bunch
of roms, too.

We had the roms set to have the WordStar sequences in the PF keys;
this worked well, since we could program the 20 keys, 20 shifted keys,
PLUS the 15 key keypad (toggled between numbers and functions, and
which one was shifted.)

I don't know if these terminals are still around. We had difficulty
getting them after a while. They may have (shudder) EVOLVED since then...
/Happy Hacking........\\.............Mark Eichin/
<eichin@ATHENA.MIT.EDU><SIPB member & Watchmaker>