On Mon, 7 Jan 2008, Mr Ian Primus wrote:
--- steven stengel <tosteve at yahoo.com>
wrote:
On the right, is it a computer, or just a dumb
terminal?
There's a printer and possibly floppies in the
background, but where do they go?
http://oldcomputers.net/temp/1980something.jpg
Thanks-
Steve.
That's a Xerox 820-II. It's a CPM based computer,
contained within the monitor enclosure. The floppy
drive is an external unit. The one I have, the floppy
drive is enclosed in a box along with a hard drive.
The external box is about the same size as the
computer/monitor itself.
That external box appears to be sitting to the right of the monitor, just
behind that weird head-shaped thing. I'm impressed that it was able to
get so far away from the monitor. The cable is usually just long enough
for it to sit directly to the side, not kitty-corner like it is in that
picture
--
David Griffith
dgriffi at
cs.csubak.edu
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