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On 11/16/24 9:38 AM, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
> On 16/11/2024 14:14, Andreas Eder wrote:
>> On Sa 16 Nov 2024 at 00:01, "186282@ud0s4.net" <186283@ud0s4.net> wrote:
>>
>>>    As for terminals, I liked the Textronics 4000
>>>    series a lot more. For text + simple graphs
>>>    vector really was faster/sharper than bitmap ...
>>>    at least back in the low-bandwidth day.
>>
>> It is Tektronix you mean, not Textronics isn't it?

   Yea, yea ... it's one of those words I *always*
   mis-spell. Dunno why  :-)

   But they WERE really good terminals ...