TeleVideo 920C ASCII Terminal

Manufactured 1980 in San Jose, California. Edition with Danish keyboard.

TeleVideo 912/920

When you worked with computers in the seventies and eighties, you would often curse at the limited capacity and speed of the hardware of the day. Today, where this has been solved for any reasonable use, one might feel some nostalgia for those simpler times where every byte counted. Some very elegant software solutions were created out of sheer necessity.

What was it like back then? The goal of this website is to provide a sense of the tools we used.

• TVI 912 keyboard (tvi912-keyboard.pdf) (867,888 bytes)
• TVI 912 service manual (tvi912-service-manual.pdf) (22,827,706 bytes)
• TVI 912/920 Operators Reference (TVI-912_920_Operators_Reference_1979.pdf) (2,728,832 bytes)
• TVI power supplies (tvi-power-supplies.pdf) (4,015,608 bytes)