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    The ADM-3A was an influential early video display terminal, introduced in 1976. It was manufactured by Lear Siegler and had a 12-inch screen displaying...
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  • Look up adm., Adm., or ADM in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Adm is an abbreviation for the naval rank of admiral. ADM or A.D.M. may also refer to:...
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    the regular expression extensions out of that. Joy used a Lear Siegler ADM-3A terminal. On this terminal, the Escape key was at the location now occupied...
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    with the rise of time sharing computers. Important early products were the ADM-3A, VT52, and VT100. These devices used no complicated CPU, instead relying...
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  • design. The ADM-1 was followed by the ADM-2 in early 1974. It had expanded functionality and a detached keyboard. In 1976, LSI released ADM-3A, one of the...
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    text editor. The editor was written by Bill Joy for use on a Lear-Siegler ADM-3A terminal, which places arrow symbols on these letters, since it did not...
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    escape being conveniently placed in what is now the tab position on the ADM-3A terminal keyboard used to develop vi, though it is now inconveniently placed...
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    pressed along with ⇧ Shift in editable text. A Home key was present on the ADM-3A and many other pre-PC dumb terminal keyboards. Its application here was...
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    emulates an ADM-3A terminal [citation needed] in CP/M mode, so software will have to be set up for that. Aside from the standard ADM-3A terminal commands...
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    of the ⎋ Esc key in vi, due to the convenient position of the key on the ADM-3A terminal. Other users, however, thought that so many keys were excessive...
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    applications. In contrast, "dumb terminals" or "glass teletypes" like the ADM-3A (1976) lacked advanced features such as full cursor addressability, and...
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    computer terminals, including the Teletype Model 33 ASR and Lear-Siegler ADM-3A, and early models of the IBM PC, positioned the Control key on the left...
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  • reserved functions. Arrow keys § HJKL keys, HJKL as arrow keys, used on ADM-3A terminal C0 and C1 control codes Escape sequence In-band signaling Whitespace...
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  • B-ETI was a Microbee-based serial terminal. It could emulate either an ADM-3A or Televideo 912 terminal. The display format was monochrome 80 × 24 and...
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    computer terminals, including the Teletype Model 33 ASR and Lear-Siegler ADM-3A, the Apple II and a few Apple Keyboard models retained the Control key where...
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    ASCII display terminals: ADDS Viewpoint, Hazeltine 1500, Lear Siegler ADM-3A and ADM 5, and TeleVideo 910 The IBM 3164 Color ASCII Display Station, available...
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  • /home/user, cd $HOME, or cd. This convention derives from the Lear-Siegler ADM-3A terminal in common use during the 1970s, which happened to have the tilde...
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    stand. The casing around the keyboard was curved, somewhat similar to the ADM-3A. The entire front cover lifted upward to provide access to the printing...
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    or mainframes that would access corporate data via terminals such as the ADM-3A or Data General's own Dasher terminals (the cost of the laptop would not...
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  • video terminal that would display 24 lines of 80 characters such as the ADM-3A. (No graphics were available and lower-case letters were a $75 option.)...
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    video terminals, such as the Digital Equipment Corporation VT52 (1975), the ADM-3A (1976), and the VT100 (1978), could communicate much faster than electromechanical...
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    Further variants, such as the ES-3A Shadow carrier-based electronic intelligence (ELINT) platform, and the US-3A carrier-based utility and cargo transport...
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    terminal (which is useful for dial-up access to remote systems): VT100 ADM-3A Hazeltine Hewlett-Packard The Osborne Executive was useful for presentations...
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    Front Panel Interface Card". HOP box and D01 card (for interface) Terminal: ADM-3A (1975) Synclavier II (1980): 8-bit FM/additive synthesis, 32-track memory...
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  • use. One notable example is the escape key, used by the vi editor: on the ADM-3A terminal this was located where the Tab key is on the IBM PC, but on the...
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    LSI ADM-3A terminal, physical interface for BSD Unix...
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    available both as a standalone CRT terminal (very similar in design to the ADM-3A) with 1200-bit/s modem, and as software-only for MS-DOS computers. The system...
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  • by CRT-based units such as the DEC VT05, Datapoint 2200 and Lear Siegler ADM-3A. Terminals were initially linked to a nearby computer via current loop or...
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    Dasher D216 protocol, as well as DEC's VT100 protocol and Lear Siegler's ADM-3A protocol. Aside from its terminal emulation functionality, the original...
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    are on display. The domestic mainframe based on VAX is exhibited, while ADM-3A, VT52, VT100, and Minitel terminals have been connected to modern single-board...
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