29 Dec
2005
29 Dec
'05
9:22 p.m.
On 12/29/2005 at 9:35 PM Richard wrote:
Any chance you have pictures of them? I haven't
even been able to
find any pictures of some of the models we used at UDel.
No, but they sound about the same. Beige pebble-painted slab-sided cases
with a sloping top (I think they were actually made of welded sheets of
aluminum), detachable keyboard with a thick grey cable and some keys with
little bi-pin lamps under them to indicate modes. Rotary control on a
small black panel on the back to set the bitrate from 110-9600(?). Shift
register memory and some 1702s for ROM. IIRC, end-of-line was something
like 0x1f. Bronze-tinted sheet of plexiglass over the screen. Keys were
light brown and the keyboard mask was dark brown. IIRC, the thing couldn't
actually display and scroll at 9600, so handshaking at higher speeds was
required. I still may have some code around that I used to drive one. I
think I remember that you could fire off some combinations of codes that
would cause them to hang.
Cheers,
Chuck