Talk:Main Page

This main page should provide a guide into the rest of the content.

Model Template

Pages for terminal models should contain an infobox on the right that contains a standard set of items:

• canonical photo
• model name
• manufacturer name
• date offered
• date discontinued
• communication options: serial, ethernet, polled, etc.
• operating baud rates, if serial
• range of displayable characters
• size of display memory (24 lines by 80 columns, 66 lines by 80 columns, etc.)
• size of character cell matrix (7x9, etc.), supports half-pixel shift
• supports a forms/block mode
• supports line drawing character set
• supports custom character set
• half/full duplex
• video attributes: underline, inverse, bold, half bright, blink
• color text
• personalities: i.e. emulates vt52, vt100, 4010, etc., linked to pages emulated
• graphics resolution, i.e. 640x480
• graphics color resolution
  • bit depth of color specifications
  • number of colors on screen
  • number of colors in palette
  • depth of frame buffer, i.e. number of bitplanes
• print technology (thermal, dot matrix, type ball, daisy wheel, type hammer)
• print dot density (thermal, dot matrix)
• display technology: dvst, vector crt, raster crt

BitSavers

Include links to BitSavers documentation as bulleted list inside a section. For an example, see Lear Siegler ADM-3A

manx

For documentation that is listed in manx, but not present on bitsavers, include a link to the details page for the documentation in manx.

For an example, see Hazeltine 1400