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Syst you the system study Engineering, Only ADS can offer hardware and field maintenance t0 move data from fingertips to readout — hard copy to video designed as a compatible system — manu- factured under strict quality control to work as a compatible system — backed up by un- beatable know-how and customer engineer software, ing to continue reliable operation as a ‘compatible system, Hardware, ADS hardware includes ter- minals, multiplexers, modems and com munications controllers. All hardware items ‘n with LSI, MOS, and other ADS design features. state-of-the-art Terminals. In production now are two major terminals ~ a hard copy teleprinter and a Video terminal. Various configurations of the compact video terminal make it useful for silent paging, data display, remote com: puter operation, and “instant” data trans. mittal, The teleprinter operates in three ccode-modes at the flick of a switch— ASCII BCD, and Correspondence. It is self con- tained within a standard typewriter case. 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