TeleVideo TVI-912 ASCII terminal
Donor: Department of Physics
North Korean-born Dr. Kyupin Philip Hwang, a Utah State University graduate, started a company in 1975 which sold CRT monitors for arcade games. As this project matured, Hwang went on in 1979 to found TeleVideo Systems, Inc., which manufactured a series of text terminals and later, CP/M and MS-DOS compatible personal computers, which notably could be connected in networks as large as sixteen machines via serial interfaces using a proprietary protocol. Hwang headquartered TeleVideo in San Jose, California.
The TVI-912, introduced in 1979, the same year TeleVideo was founded, was one of TeleVideo's earliest terminals, preceded only by the TVI-910. It supports a 96-character ASCII upper and lower case alphabet, displays 24 80-character lines on screen, and weighs in at 30 lbs. It supports 9 data rates on RS232 serial interfaces, ranging from 75 to 9600 baud (bits/second) with half-duplex and full-duplex conversation and block transfer modes.
References:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Televideo
http://vt100.net/televideo/
http://maben.homeip.net/static/S100/televideo/termnals/ (some cool TVI-925 schematics on this site... might be worth including, even though it's a different model)
manual, available on vt100.net, saved at /home/cooperth/museum/items/TeleVideo TVI-912/912b-om.pdf
