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This main page should provide a guide into the rest of the content.

Model Template
Use Template:Infobox terminal for a basic infobox for terminals. Template:Infobox terminal/testcases/Beehive B100 is a test page demonstrating the template.

All of the information below needs to be included conditionally in the infobox so that only known information is shown.

TODO: Enhance the terminal infobox to contain the following standard set of items:
 * output type: display, print
 * range of displayable characters
 * supports a forms/block mode
 * supports line drawing character set
 * supports custom character set
 * half/full duplex
 * video attributes: underline, inverse, bold, half bright, blink
 * color text
 * graphics color resolution
 * bit depth of color specifications
 * number of colors on screen
 * number of colors in palette
 * depth of frame buffer, i.e. number of bitplanes
 * print technology (thermal, dot matrix, type ball, daisy wheel, type hammer)
 * print dot density (thermal, dot matrix)
 * display technology: dvst, vector crt, raster crt, shaped beam

TODO: Categories of terminals (CRT, graphics, printing, etc.) should be broken out into specialized templates that invoke Template:Infobox terminal.

Manx
For documentation that is listed in manx, include a link to the details page for the documentation in manx. (These URLs are permanent and don't change.) This is allows you to link to documents that are known to exist but aren't online. For documents that are online, it allows you to choose a mirror for the document, if any.

For an example, see Hazeltine 1500

BitSavers
Include links to documentation present on bitsavers, but not in manx, as bulleted list inside a section. All model pages have transitioned to using links in manx.

Computer History Museum Catalog
Use the special interwiki link link text to link directly to the Computer History Museum's catalog directly for accession number NNNN using the supplied link text.

TODO: make templates for linking to CHM items and providing the boilerplate above.