Aucbvax.6939 fa.info-terms utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!info-terms Tue Apr 27 10:46:05 1982 Hewlett-Packard Computer Research Center >From faunt.hp-labs@UDel-Relay Mon Apr 26 18:07:03 1982 To: info-terms at Mit-Ai Subject: HP terminal options Via: HP-Labs; 26 Apr 82 18:43-EDT HP has two new specials that people may be interested in. All of these are for the 2622, 2623 and 2624. K24 makes the function keys, ESC, BS, TAB, Back TAB, DEL, CAPS, CTRL, r Shift, l Shift, ENTER and TAB and back TAB on the keypad, definable as any of the functions in that set or a sequence of four characters. NULL is also selectable.K45 does the same thing to the keyboard, but also gives a Bit-Paired keyboard, like the HP264X terminals. These cost an additional $200. on the terminal price. Now, they have done, for me here, an additional change that makes one of the additional functions, the META key that sets the 8th bit. If I can get enough response, maybe it can be released to the world. Send mail to me if you could be interested. Data Terminals Division will not do a retrofit on older 2622s and 2623s because it requires adding a wire to the PC board, but maybe I can give out this information if enough people are interested in retrofitting their terminals. It would require ordering the ROM's from standard HP sources, and I could give out the instructions and copy EPROMs for you. It takes four new ROM's and an EPROM. 2624B's can be retrofited. Rumors: They are doing a 2623 that is ANSI compatible (most of the VT100 functions, but not large characters) for alpha-numerics and control functions and is Tektronix compatible for graphic functions. This is a special that is in the works. A color graphics 262x and 264x will be released this summer, maybe. ----------------------------------------------------------------- gopher://quux.org/ conversion by John Goerzen of http://communication.ucsd.edu/A-News/ This Usenet Oldnews Archive article may be copied and distributed freely, provided: 1. There is no money collected for the text(s) of the articles. 2. The following notice remains appended to each copy: The Usenet Oldnews Archive: Compilation Copyright (C) 1981, 1996 Bruce Jones, Henry Spencer, David Wiseman.