On 09/08/2018 08:10 PM, Ed Sharpe wrote: > Yepper the material that holds all together... > > I remember back in the first year in Computer Biz we came across > one of these and it was fun to watch it run self test.... fast! > sold it to someone that had one and interfaced it already... > > Always wanted later a combo for museum display of the CRT and the > Printer... There is a great glossy that shows up on ebay time to time > that was a press photo of a gal with the combo at a desk...
It's a bit surprising to see how few pieces of old peripherals have survived. Sometime around 1985, we had a VAX 11/750 driving two CDC (MPI) big 1500 (IIRC) LPM printers. I don't know whatever became of them, but we couldn't have been an isolated instance. It seems that more CPUs have survived than the accompanying peripherals. This, in spite of installations with oceans of disk and tape drives, for example. --Chuck
