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