Hazeltine 1400 info?

[Allison]

>
>Subject: Re: Hazeltine 1400 info?
>   From: "Chuck Guzis" <cclist at sydex.com>
>   Date: Fri, 01 Jun 2007 08:27:23 -0700
>     To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
>
>On 31 May 2007 at 18:19, Allison wrote:
>
>> The 1400 series was after the 1500 series and was effectively a cost 
>> reduced (cheaper to build and sell) terminal.  The 1400 was circa 
>> 1976-78 or so.
>
>Am I the only one who actually used one of these and hated it?  I had 
>one hooked to an MDS800 development system. For the time, they were 
>inexpensive, but there were better terminals around--and the use of a 
>displayable character (tilde) as the escape code leadin made things 
>more trouble than the terminals were worth.   I think I may even have 
>the code for a full-screen editor written in PL/M somewhere.

I was working for Hazeltine terminals group at the time, one look at the 
1400s and I left.  There were a few things about it that suggested with 
better firmware it could be nice but didn't happen.

My experience lead to buying a H19, a decent tube that I still have.

Allison


>
>Cheers,
>Chuck