Does anyone know anything about this mysterious thing called an Intel TRM-1?

[Mark Gent]

Hi,

I recently discovered the appearance on eBay of what looks to me like a terminal called the Intel TRM-1:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/236577348626

I have seen many an Intel manual and used quite a few or their machines, but never seen any of these.
(and if I had sufficient space for it and was living in the US and had no doubt more money than sense I would have snapped that up in a microsecond)

Is it a re-badged Hazeltine or something?

Has anyone come across one before?

Thanks,

Mark

[craig andrews]

I have been watching this, but once I saw the asking price more just out of curiosity rather than any thought of purchasing.  

I know the Intel terminal showed up with the original MDS in the late 70s, I used one but it was hanging on a bare bones system. 

Craig

[Herbert Johnson]

I don't remember this terminal configuration after half a century. but I
looked at the photos and used some judgement. I think "rebadged" is
pretty likely.

The bottom of the terminal has glued on labels which strongly suggest
this was a piece of Intel property, not necessarily an Intel product.
ONe label has a date 9/16/83. The front has two matching "Intel" molded
badges, which could have been attached by anyone.

The screen has a lot of burn-in characters, which suggest heavy use with
a software product that had a distinctive menu. Not sure how that could
identify use or origin.

I recommend a visual search for terminals produced prior to 1983 that
look like this one. The keyboard has unique layout and colors. Possibly
inspection of the keycaps would be informative.

I don't like training AI's. But this circumstance suggests use of Google
Image. Easier done than explained.

> AI Overview
> This item is a vintage Data General Dasher D200 terminal branded with Intel logos.
>
> It features a green phosphor Cathode Ray Tube (CRT) display.
> The keyboard has distinctive blue function keys.
> This specific unit was likely used as a development workstation for Intel microprocessors.
> These are considered collectibles for vintage computing enthusiasts.

Well, that failed. the search "focused" (correlated) with the blue
keycaps found one the Data General DG D200, but that ain't it.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Vintagekeyboards/comments/1f2179h/data_media_elite_3000_keyboard/

On a hunch: The above Data Media product keyboard, matches the physical
layout of the badged Intel terminal. A change of keycaps would complete
the match. But that suggests a keyboard producer, not a terminal producer.

https://terminals-wiki.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page

A search here, or a post to their Wiki, may be productive.

That's all I've got. - regards Herb Johnson

On 3/15/2026 2:43 PM, craig andrews wrote:
>
> I have been watching this, but once I saw the asking price more just out
> of curiosity rather than any thought of purchasing.
> I know the Intel terminal showed up with the original MDS in the late
> 70s, I used one but it was hanging on a bare bones system.
>
> Craig
> On Sunday, March 15, 2026 at 10:58:11 AM UTC-7 Mark Gent wrote:
>
> I recently discovered the appearance on eBay of what looks to me
> like a terminal called the Intel TRM-1:
> https://www.ebay.com/itm/236577348626

> Is it a re-badged Hazeltine or something?
> Has anyone come across one before?

--
Herb Johnson, New Jersey USA
http://www.retrotechnology.com or .net
preserve and restore 1970's personal computing
email: hjohnson @ retrotechnology dot com
or try later at herbjohnson @ comcast dot net

[Al Kossow]

On 3/15/26 2:23 PM, Herbert Johnson wrote:

>> I recently discovered the appearance on eBay of what looks to me
>> like a terminal called the Intel TRM-1:
>> https://www.ebay.com/itm/236577348626
>> Is it a re-badged Hazeltine or something?
>> Has anyone come across one before?
>

Zentec

[craig andrews]

Here is a photo of a MDS with the terminal

https://www.digibarn.com/collections/systems/intel-MDS-blue-box/IntelMSD472.JPG

[Herbert Johnson]

Bingo:

https://terminals-wiki.org/wiki/index.php/Zentec_Zephyr

http://bitsavers.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/pdf/datapro/programmable_terminals/Datapro_C21_Zentec.pdf

Regards Herb

On 3/15/2026 5:32 PM, Al Kossow wrote:

>> Zentec

> On 3/15/26 Mark Gent wrote:
>
>>> I recently discovered the appearance on eBay of what looks to me
>>> like a terminal called the Intel TRM-1:
>>> https://www.ebay.com/itm/236577348626
>>> Is it a re-badged Hazeltine or something?
>>> Has anyone come across one before?

[Mark Gent]

Hi everyone,

Many thanks for demystifying this.

Clearly Intel *did* sell (re-badged) terminals with their early kit.  I've really absolutely never seen one in any of their many databooks, let alone one "in the flesh", but looking at it again their is a similar terminal shown in the section for the ICE-85 in the 1978 Intel Component Data Catalog.  But clearly they never sold them or advertised them on their own.

This also finally explains what that zentec.mac file is doing in the Aedit distribution.

I do think that TRM-1 is a good-looking machine (one-piece, many-key-keyboard with traditional keycaps), but it's not exactly easy to get another CRT and fitting a TFT means sawing into the CRT surround.
However, if anyone has a non-working one in the UK that can be provided with modern innards then please give me a shout ;-)

Again, many thanks for clearing this up.

Cheers,

Mark