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Article #1113ADDS Consul 980's (was: CDC slowdown / TV computers ...)
From: Dan Flak
Date: Sun, 04 Feb 1990 06:51
Date: Sun, 04 Feb 1990 06:51
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In article <6475@netcom.UUCP> edg@netcom.UUCP (Edward Greenberg) writes:
>They were Consul 980's. I believe that there were some models in the
>Consul series that supported lower case, but hey, who cares. It's
>just a prop, right? In fact, it's probably one of the better props,
>since it has (had? naa, there must be one still around) a bright
>orange (cherry) keyboard, and a black character on white screen
>background. Pretty, on TV.
I have inherited (don't ask how) a flock of Consul 980's several
years ago. I've been trying to get rid of them ever since. They
do support upper and lower case, but the former owner of them has
them "hardwired" to the upper case mode. You can get lower case
by pressing the shift key. Unfortunately, this gives you
puctuation when you want numbers. the keyboard, however, is a
bland grey and white.
--
Dan Flak - McCaw Cellular Communications Inc., 201 Elliot Ave W.,
Suite 105, Seattle, Wa 98119, 206-286-4355, (usenet: thebes!mcgp1!flak)
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Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!unido!mcsun!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!execu!sequoia!attdso!ssc!mcgp1!flak From: flak@mcgp1.UUCP (Dan Flak) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: ADDS Consul 980's (was: CDC slowdown / TV computers ...) Keywords: CDC TRS-80 TV differential analyzer 3270 Message-ID: <3228@mcgp1.UUCP> Date: 4 Feb 90 06:51:00 GMT References: <4815@convex.convex.com> <9651@spool.cs.wisc.edu> <131088@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> <6475@netcom.UUCP> Reply-To: flak@mcgp1.UUCP (Dan Flak) Distribution: alt Organization: McCaw Cellular Communications, Inc., Seattle Lines: 19 Posted: Sun Feb 4 07:51:00 1990 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit