On 08/20/2016 02:48 PM, Mouse wrote:
[small pizza-box X terminal]
I had a similar unit from NCD, [...]
Back in the day I remember using monochrome NCD X terminals though,
and those things were just great - it would be nice to find one again
one day.
I own two NCD X-terminals; if you can drop by Ottawa, I wouldn't mind
unloading one onto someone who'll appreciate it properly. :-)
You're actually south of me, despite my being in the US, but the trip out
west is a little bit of a stretch (at least, just for a terminal) - I think
it'd be around 900 miles. But thanks, though - I'll park that bit of info
in my brain though just in case I'm ever out in your neck of the woods
anyway; I can always contact you and see if you still have a spare one.
The displays were large, and I want to say the aspect ratio was
either portrait or maybe square, rather than any kind of modern
landscape nonsense :-)
IIRC the ones I have are 4:3 landscape, but they could be square; it's
been a while since I had much to do with them.
Mine are in storage, not amenable to easy checking at the moment, but
IIRC their NCD model number is 19r.
Yes, I think the 19r's are 4:3 - I remember those having quite nice styling
and very curved screens (actually, I wonder if they're the same physical
CRT inside as Sun used on some of their old workstation displays) so they
still look quite nice (and of course being monochrome the display quality
is very good)
cheers
Jules
