# Televideo Terminals

#### Televideo 950 Video Terminal

Televideo (once Televideo Systems, Inc.) is no longer the significant player in the character-cell video-terminal business that it once was. In January 2005, Neoware bought the Televideo thin-client business, including TVI 990 and 995 terminals.

A few other vendors now sell equipment that can emulate Televideo terminals. (Such vendors include Wyse Technology and Boundless Systems.)

> (In this day and age I suppose it is necessary to say that a classic "Televideo" terminal is not an apparatus for transmitting full-motion TV camera images for remote conferencing.)

The page you are viewing concentrates on the particular features of Televideo terminals and emulations of them. For information that applies in general to all video terminals, see the general information page. For information on terminals from a multitude of different vendors, see the various terminals page.

- Discussion of Televideo products.
- termcap entries for Televideo.
- terminfo entries for Televideo.
- Chart of Televideo 950 functions.
- Discussion about control codes for Televideo terminals.
- Function key codes for Televideo 955.
- Keyboard diagram of Televideo 955/Stratus V102. (GIF)
- Televideo 955; Stratus V102/V103 control codes. (Stratus)
- Stratus V102 keyboard function template, alphabetic side. (GIF)
- Stratus V102 keyboard function template, numeric keypad. (GIF)
- Programmer's Manual for Stratus V103 (R242, PDF.gz)
- Discussion of Dorio-brand products.
- Discussion of Wyse products.
- Hints and tricks for video-terminal repair (including Wyse and Televideo).
- VED Helpfile for Televideo TVI925 (1982 poplog temporary: Sloman)

> The Stratus V101 is a Televideo 950. The V102 terminal is a Televideo 955 equipped with the 2-page memory option. A Stratus V103 is a Link MC-5 (operated in TVI 955 mode). However, the Stratus V105 is a different genus: it's a Boundless 4000/160 terminal with ANSI keyboard, running in VT320/7-bit mode.

## Web Resources Elsewhere

- Televideo documentation at VT100.net
- Utah State alumni newsletter featuring Televideo's founder :::.

## Vendor Web Pages

- Neoware offers Televideo 990 and 995 terminals.
- Midcom Communications (dealer for Televideo terminals, also other brands)
- Wyse Technology, vendor of general-purpose terminals, maintains a support page on a UK Web site.
- VXL Instruments (Wyse or IBM-compatible terminals & "Network Computers")
- 1st Solutions Inc. (terminal dealer)
- Regal Technology (for used Stratus V102s)
- Links for numerous terminal-emulator vendors, several platforms

## Emulations and help on Internet

> Here I try to put links to any Televideo terminal emulations available from Internet sources. I don't know if they are any good, but perhaps you will find use for these.

- Local page on video-terminal emulation.
- Brown FTP distribution of Televideo 950 emulation for Macintosh
- Program Televideo 970 features from a file. (in Pascal or Ada)
- Happy Fun Ball Consumer Statement

## Quotable Quote:

### Pre-publication excerpt from JB's forthcoming Diabolical Dictionary of Data Diddling:

gluey game, n: the process of making A work with B, even though A accesses the aarghbot through the diddlywhomp, but B does not work if you have the diddlywhomp loaded--but you think that there is an option which lets A remap it through the zongerspec...but somehow that doesn't make it to B. Or you could try piping it through a chixzip sequence, but then it will take 67,392 years to load the word processor. And so on, ad infinitim, ad nauseum, ad mausoleum. It takes 6 (standard deviation 2.3) hours to discover that what you're trying to do is impossible. If you could change the source code for A, however, it would take two minutes. It is a felony to even think of checking out what "gluey" rhymes with, or to ruminate on whether Microsoft Windows has helped or hurt our ability to cope with this problem.

-- John Beckett <jbeckett(at)southern.edu>

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