Chris asks:

> But do you remember the wonderful HP2640 terminals,
>  which came with 1k byte of memory, and you could
>  add a 4kb board for about $300? which would let you
>  display a full screen! If you wanted fancy characters,
>  you added another card for that, to get lower case and such
>  (we bought lots of them, and added the options, so I don't quite
>  no for sure what they would do with the minimum model.)
>
>  They had a top speed of 2400bps, but needed the old enq-ack
>  handshaking because they couldn't always keep up with 2400bps.

Yes, I do remember them. In fact we still have HP265x terminals in use here
now. See:

     http://aics-research.com/history6.html

Wirt Atmar

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