Origins of "ansi" color codes

[Richard]

In article <45CD2289.7000309 at comcast.net>,
    Frank Palazzolo <palazzol at comcast.net>  writes:

> I am interested in knowing which terminal actually originated these 
> colors (vt241? vt3xx series?).

ECMA-048 is the standard for this and it was first introduced in 1976:
<http://www.ecma-international.org/publications/standards/Ecma-048.htm>
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