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Terminals wiki
« on: Fri, 28 September 2012, 18:12:14 »
Hi, I'm a collector of terminals (mostly RS-232, but also some RTTY) and I've created a terminals wiki to collect information about terminals all in one place.

You can see pictures of the collection here; some of the older terminals have interesting keyboards, particularly with non-standard layouts.

Terminals Wiki

If you want an account to contribute to the wiki, I am the administrator of the wiki and can help you out with that.  I didn't want open registration because of spammers.

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Re: Terminals wiki
« Reply #1 on: Fri, 28 September 2012, 18:18:36 »
Nice wiki you got there sir!!
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« Reply #2 on: Fri, 28 September 2012, 22:25:29 »
Welcome to Geekhack!

Nice collection :)
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Re: Terminals wiki
« Reply #3 on: Fri, 28 September 2012, 22:30:43 »
Lots of nice looking keyboards attached to dem dere terminals
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Re: Terminals wiki
« Reply #4 on: Sat, 29 September 2012, 03:32:19 »
Wow. That's a nice big Wiki. But only one terminal from IBM ...
There are some people here that are quite knowledgeable about IBM Terminal keyboards, and people also like to steal the keycaps from the Wyse terminal keyboards to put on their modern keyboards.

Oh, man.. Look at that amount of SGIs ... They don't make computers like that any more.
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Re: Terminals wiki
« Reply #5 on: Thu, 04 October 2012, 19:03:10 »
Yes, I'm not very knowledgable about IBM terminals so I haven't built up that section yet.  We'll get to it eventually.  If someone wants to step up to that, just let me know and we can get an account created.

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Re: Terminals wiki
« Reply #6 on: Fri, 05 October 2012, 10:52:46 »
I can certainly offer info about the keyboards for some 80s-some 90s IBM stuff...but just the keyboards, so I'm not too sure how useful that is.
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Re: Terminals wiki
« Reply #7 on: Sun, 07 October 2012, 09:40:19 »
I can certainly offer info about the keyboards for some 80s-some 90s IBM stuff...but just the keyboards, so I'm not too sure how useful that is.

Keyboards are a pretty important part of a terminal, so I see no reason why not to collect detail on them :)