Speaking of oddball terminals, does anyone have details on Cybernex APL-100 terminals? I acquired one a couple of years ago and have had no luck locating documentation for them.
From: "cctalk" <cctalk@classiccmp.org> To: "cctalk" <cctalk@classiccmp.org> Sent: Friday, September 7, 2018 8:41:23 AM Subject: Re: Oddball Terminals (Was: Re: VT100's) On 9/6/2018 10:38 PM, Mark J. Blair via cctalk wrote: > A long time ago, I had the incomplete remnants of an oddball terminal which I > retrieved from a junk pile at a small, obscure school in Pasadena. I'll try > to describe it as best I can, based on old memory. I could have sworn that it > had a dataplate label identifying it as a DEC VT02, but that could be way off > the mark. > > It was built around a Tektronix vector storage display, oriented in portrait > mode. It had quite a bit of screen burn from its long life displaying text. I > don't recall the model number of the display, but I might recognize one if I > saw it. It was quite long, making the whole terminal quite long. It had X, Y > and Z BNC inputs, and it had a neat test mode that drew a spiral on the > screen. > > The display sat on top of a long chassis with a keyboard at one end, a small > Flip Chip backplane around the middle, and a power supply (probably linear, > IIRC) at the rear end. I don't think that the Flip Chip boards were still in > it when I got it, but it came along with a small box of spare Flip Chips. > > After setting the big Tektronix display on top of the lower chassis, there > was a long U-shaped sheet metal cover that sat over the top and covered the > display, making it look somewhat like a single device rather than a stack of > two things. The lower chassis and the top cover were painted approximately > white as I recall. > > I never did anything interesting with the display other than occasionally > driving it with signal generators, and I got rid of the whole pile a long, > long time ago. > > Does that old beast sound remotely familiar to anybody here? How hard should > I kick myself for not keeping it? > The display was most likely a Tektronix 611. DEC used them with their point plot display systems like the VC8E. Bob -- Vintage computers and electronics www.dvq.com www.tekmuseum.com www.decmuseum.org
