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The Perkin-Elmer Owl-1200 terminal was introduced in January, 1977 at a price of $1,795.
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* [http://books.google.com/books?id=XEToBl0e2NIC&lpg=PA29&pg=PA29 "Perkin-Elmer Enters CRT Arena"], Computerworld, January 17, 1977, pg.  29
 
* [http://books.google.com/books?id=XEToBl0e2NIC&lpg=PA29&pg=PA29 "Perkin-Elmer Enters CRT Arena"], Computerworld, January 17, 1977, pg.  29
  
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Revision as of 17:15, 26 February 2012

The Perkin-Elmer Owl 1200 terminal was introduced in January, 1977 at a price of $1,795.

Features:

  • Motorola 6800 microprocessor
  • 80x24 character resolution
  • up to 9600 baud
  • asynchronous serial interface
  • ASCII character set
  • 9x12 dot matrix character cell, with lower case descenders
  • optional X-Y coordinate line drawing capability
  • attributes: inverse video, half intensity, blink, protected, numeric only, nondisplay and modified
  • editing features: insert/delete character on line, clear screen, clear unprotected and clear line/field
  • SEND keys can be programmed to send all or part of the screen or programmed to send only a "request to send header"
  • optional polling select option for $86

References