19 Apr
2006
19 Apr
'06
9:56 a.m.
In article <006601c663b9$0a831460$5f25fea9 at ibm23xhr06>,
"John Allain" <allain at panix.com> writes:
Its not a display, doesn't count :-).
What's the
oldest graphical display output device in your collection?
Uuuuh, a fountain pen? You've hit a nerve there. I've Used many
such systems,
but wasn't sufficiently grabby enough to go and get them
when and if they were scrapped. I won a $5 bid on a
Applicon CAD system and wimped out on that one,
*ouch* That would have been sweet, but the logistics are obviously a
challenge.
And the Calma auction of Apollos in ~1988.
*also ouch* Apollos seem pretty rare now!
Also wimped out on paying $200 for an IBM 5100 in
1990. Ouch.
What's a 5100?
I've never seen a PS300. Which VCF would you
go to
if you brought it. West, East, Germany, ?
West, that's within driving distance at least (I'm in Salt Lake City).
In general, I wonder if anyone on list has an Adage
vector
display system? I bow to Tom Uban and his Imlac, that
was the 1st "real" system I used, pre-grad.
I love starting threads like this because I always learn something. I
didn't know about the Imlac! Now I'll add it to the list of systems I
need to learn more about and hopefully acquire.
Owned, inexact list, including dates:
1972: DEC PDP11/10 + LPS + O'Scope, unconfigured
What's LPS?
Note that 1991 or so marked the explosion of
Windowing
everywhere, so only the specialized machines in that period
need apply.
Agreed.
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