Perkin-Elmer Owl 1200

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

• "Perkin-Elmer Enters CRT Arena", Computerworld, January 17, 1977, pg. 29