TDV-2200 was a series of terminals produced by

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from the early 1980s.

Norsk Data Norsk Data was a minicomputer manufacturer located in Oslo, Norway. Existing from 1967 to 1998, it had its most active period from the early 1970s to the late 1980s. At the company's peak in 1987, it was the second largest company in Norway and em ...

sold rebranded versions of the TDV 2200 series under their own designations ND-240/242 (TDV-2215 variants), ND-246/266/267 (TDV-2200/9 variants) and ND-320 (TDV-2200/9S).Norsk Data Service Handbook, Vol.1, 1984. The rebranded TDV-2200/9(S) terminals had keyboards customized for the

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text processing system. For

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, Tandberg build the similar MTS 2000 series. Another important customer was

Mycron Mycron was a pioneer manufacturer of microcomputers, located in Oslo, Norway. Originally named Norsk Data Industri, the company was founded in 1975 by Lars Monrad Krohn, who was also one of the founding fathers of Norsk Data. Among the employ ...

. It optionally used ISO 646-NO for mapping of the Norwegian characters, which made them a pet hate among UNIX people. (Some users still humorously pronounce the

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as "ø".) Versions with vector graphics were available, as were versions supporting Thai script and other scripts. It won several awards for ergonomic design, and its keyboard was widely considered to be one of the best on the market. Its immediate predecessor was the TDV-2100 series, and its successor was the TDV-1200.

External links

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terminals wiki

References

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