I was wondering if I could get some photos of assorted old terminals displaying
Frotz running Infocom games. I'm particularly interested in seeing the VT52,
VT100, LA36 / LA120, ASR33, and TVI-910 like this.
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David Griffith
d...@661.org
As an fyi to collecting, many old newspapers might be a source for old iron.
They invested in computer Technology and when that technology was
replaced/upgraded, they usually just moved the systems into the basement and
they sit there collecting dust. Many systems were still on the books when th
On 2019-03-14 2:21 PM, Paul Koning via cctalk wrote:
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>> On Mar 14, 2019, at 2:02 PM, Bill Gunshannon via cctalk
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>> Personally, I think it would be really neat if some of these
>> computer museums could collect complete end-product systems
>> and make them run. Can y
> On Mar 13, 2019, at 8:40 PM, Paul Koning wrote:
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>> On Mar 13, 2019, at 8:07 PM, Rick Bensene wrote:
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>> Paul K. wrote:
>>> TMS-11 did support some specialized devices that could do more. There
>> was the classified page layout system using a Tek 4010 style display
>> (4015? A B
> On Mar 14, 2019, at 2:02 PM, Bill Gunshannon via cctalk
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> Personally, I think it would be really neat if some of these
> computer museums could collect complete end-product systems
> and make them run. Can you imagine showing a bunch of students
> how a newspaper was p
On 3/14/19 1:51 PM, Rick Bensene via cctalk wrote:
> In an earlier posting, I stated that the 4014 (with its 19" DVST tube)
> was the largest DVST display that Tektronix made, to which
> Paul K. responded:
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>> An article about those terminals also turns up the 4016 (25 inch tube
> -- 4014 is 19 i
In an earlier posting, I stated that the 4014 (with its 19" DVST tube)
was the largest DVST display that Tektronix made, to which
Paul K. responded:
> An article about those terminals also turns up the 4016 (25 inch tube
-- 4014 is 19 inches). I'm not sure any more which of the two it
> was.
I
> This happened to us. when the CSE system was replaced with one from Ctext
> using pc's and OS/2 starting about 1097.
Just after the Norman Conquest: now THAT is a historic system!
Kevin
Btw... The inhouse system wasn't WYSIWYG, it used a standard font with markup
to specify attributes. The back end system translated that to the proper fonts.
The fonts were custom designed.
Sent from my iPhone
> On Mar 13, 2019, at 11:49, Paul Koning wrote:
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> Early 1979. I worked on TMS-11
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Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2019 15:56:51 -0500
From: David Williams
To: CCTech
Subject: PDP 11/60 Print Sets
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Many years ago I gave away some PDP 11/60 hardware to someone on this
list but don't recall who it was (Ethan ma
I echo the reliability requirement. Classified ad sales was the biggest revenue
generator back then so Newpapers would throw a lot of development money at them
to make them reliable. A classified sales rep would be on the phone to a
customer, taking the text of the ad and typing it directly in
Paul, what was the timeframe when you worked on the system in Van Nuys?
I worked for a large newspaper starting in 1978 and they made their own 330
seat Classified Sales Entry system because there wasn't anything out there that
was big enough.
It used Zentec ZMS-90 programmable terminals feedi
On Wed, Mar 13, 2019 at 9:01 AM Jesse Dougherty via cctech
wrote:
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> 12016-60002 - SE Cable - card edge connector to 50-pin low density bail
> lock (M) - 2m (6.6ft) long
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> If anyone has any of these, let me know, I can use about 4 of them.
>
> Thanks
> Jesse
> Cypress Technology Inc
>
Good luc
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