Datamedia Introduces a 132‐Column Smart Terminal With ANSI Compatibility
Information Display · 1981
Datamedia Introduces a 132-Column Smart Terminal With ANSI CompatibilityData media Corp .• Pennsauken, NJ, recently introduced a 132-column buffered terminal that is said to incorporate advanced display, editing and ergonomic features.Called the Excel 62, the new 12-inch CRT terminal features an 80-or 132-column display with a full241ines, block mode transmission.line and character insert and delete, protected fields, extensive visual highlighting plus double-wide and double-high/wide characters, smooth scrolling, and split screen/regional scrolling.Frank Zelis, the company's vice president of marketing, explained that the Excel 62 and 64 with their smart, standalone functions are targeted at a wide range of data processing applications."The new Excel60 series is designed to offer maximum flexibility and complete operator comfort at a competitive price, "Zelis states."The terminals are geared to users who need form fill-in formats for such applications as sales, order entry, purchasing, invoicing, etc.The Excel terminal allows the form itself to be protected while the data to be entered remains unprotected.The operator can input the data, edit and verify it for completeness and then transmit the 'entire block' to the host processor."The 132-column display capability of the Excel 60 series allows users to view wider screen formats than are ava i !able today on most other buffered term ina Is.Coup! i ng this transmission features, the Excel 60 series offers data processing users a powerful data entry tool."The new Excel terminals feature complete ergonomic