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On Friday, March 16, 2018 at 1:57:44 PM UTC-6, Andreas Kohlbach wrote:

> Interesting. But what are the chances this was used in the US? Other than
> if Braegen was a big "New Zealandish" company supplying also the rest of
> the world.
> 
> Anyway, was removing the screenshot now.
> 
> Thanks. Suppose that might just has been a mock up.

The keyboard looked familiar; I remember using a smart terminal with a keyboard 
that looked similar, which is why I spent some time searching.

The 3270 results in Computerworld show that Braegen was a real company that made 
terminals, and in the United States at that.

I think that Braegen, and at least one other company that supplied terminals to 
the New Zealand computer maker, were OEM clients of one manufacturer.

Searching on the key legends, I found that the WYSE-50 terminal, with a 
completely different key layout, also had some of the unusual keys of this 
terminal. So possibly an earlier WYSE terminal is the one I remember.

The distinctive features of this terminal are:

- it is an ASCII terminal, with the full U.S. 96 character set.

- all the keys of the keyboard are black with white legends;

- it has a numeric keypad, but it also has a keypad area on the main keyboard, and the characters which apply to that area are shown in reversed white-on-black areas;

- the four cursor keys are in a horizontal row above the main keyboard area;

- the control keys along the top are:

LINE
DEL
CHAR

LINE
INS
CHAR

EOF
CLEAR
EOL

CLEAR
HOME


OFF
SPLIT
ON

OFF
FORMAT
ON

CNCL (?)
INTENS

BLINK
(num lock, inverse video?)


(up)
(dn)
(l)
(r)



LINE
LOC+

BREAK

PAGE
SEND
LINE

PAGE
PRINT
LINE


Actually, there may be a slight difference in one of the visible keys between 
the Bregen and the New Zealand one, but they clearly at least belong to the same 
family.

The fact that a WYSE terminal also had LINE DEL and CHAR DEL on a key which put 
the common part of the functions in the middle points to WYSE either being the 
supplier or at least another OEM customer of the supplier.

So someone more familiar with old terminals than I am should be able to point to 
a more popular example of this terminal type.

John Savard