17 Apr
2014
17 Apr
'14
9:11 a.m.
In article <CANij+deZrgS3tTTTmgAEkLSWKKyQxcoy66Z0O2T8O7J723pHWA at mail.gmail.com>,
William Donzelli <wdonzelli at gmail.com> writes:
Fair enough, but you know how I look for things. There could be a
warehouse with 100 NIB Uniscopes sitting in the back and they never
put them on ebay and they never talk to anyone who knows me, so I'll
never find them.
However, compared to all the other stuff you mentioned, those have all
been routinely listed on ebay at various frequencies. Of course, I
think we've passed the point where terminals are routinely listed at
regular frequency on ebay anymore. My searches mostly come up dry
these days only showing the same handfull of $CRAZY items relisted
over and over.
4002 was the first. I've never heard of anyone that has one, much
less seen any pieces listed anywhere for sale. I'd put that at even
rarer than the Uniscope. After that is 4010 of which many were made.
True.
I am, but it's slow going as I have no period experience with the
stuff and the documentation is all written in IBM-ese.
The brain of the 2260 is the 2848 Control Unit, and it actually has
the frame buffer, control logic, comms, etc. for a number of 2260s,
which are nothing more than video monitors with keyboards. Big box,
with a mercury delay line system inside. It would be unreasonable to
think that any of these were saved, but as we all know, people have
saved weird things.
IBM 2260? I thought you were talking about the brain behind the IST II.
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Uniscope?
Unobtainium. After 10+ years, I managed to get an isolated
keyboard.
Your inability to find a Uniscope has nothing to do with it. Sure, it
could mean that they really are unobtainable, and no amount of looking
will turn up another - but it also could mean that you are having bad
luck at it, or even that you are not looking very hard. For all you
know, their could be one in the cellar in the house across the street
from you. Tek 401x?
Made in gigantic quantities and still fairly obtainable,
although not for cheap (was it ever?)
I was thinking the very first Tek terminals (4001?). From the model number you might think 4006 was made
earlier, but it
wasn't (4010 is 1973; 4006 is 1975).
DEC VT05? I
have not seen one up for sale, I don't think this was
made in very high volume compared to VT5x and certainly not compared
to VT1xx.
No, but try to find a serious DECcollector that does not want one. IBM terminals?
I know nothing about them.
Learn. *Although good luck getting the brain.
With the cyber emulator, that part is easy to handle and much more
friendly to your wallet :).