Tektronix 6130 Engineering Workstation - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

11 Jan 1998

"Zane H. Healy" &lt;healyzh(a)ix.netcom.com&gt; wrote:
...
  There is also a terminal with it, a "Ann Arbor XL
Series" that connects via
 a Serial line.  Does anyone have any idea what kind of terminal this is?
 It's very wierd, it's the only ASCII terminal that I've seen which is a
 portrait-mode terminal!  Is this some kind of VT-100 compatible or
 something?  The only thing I've ever seen that even comes close is some of
 the old Macintosh monitors. 
It's probably a flavor of the Ann Arbor Ambassador terminal.  I
remember them as being in somewhat widespread use by Unix folks in the
early-to-mid 1980s, their major feature being the number of lines of
source you could fit on the screen.  They pretty much fell out of
favor across the mid-1980s with the proliferation of bit-mapped
displays.
-Frank McConnell