Hazeltine 1200

Allison ajp166 at bellatlantic.net
Thu Dec 6 17:05:28 CST 2007


>
>Subject: Hazeltine 1200
>   From: Les Hildenbrandt <les at hildenbrandt.com>
>   Date: Thu, 06 Dec 2007 07:40:14 -0700
>     To: cctech at classiccmp.org
>
>My first computer came with a Hazeltine 1000, this was older than the 
>1200.  It had 80 characters wide, but I think it only was 12 lines tall,

I remember it as 72 (tty width).
 
>I cant remember that part for sure.  What I remeber for sure was that it 
>was upper case only.  There was a place of the PCB for a second 
>character generator rom for lower case which was not loaded.  There was 
>also a switch on the front which enabled lower case for the keyboard.  
>That was very confusing because sometimes I was typing in lower case, 
>then when I did a search or search / replace in ed it couldn't find what 
>I was searching for because it was upper case.  I didn't figure that out 
>until later when I got an intertube terminal to replace the Hazeltine 1000.

;)

Allison

>Les


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