29 Jan
2002
29 Jan
'02
5:16 a.m.
--- der Mouse <mouse(a)Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA> wrote:
A friend of mine built a framebuffer for an 11/780 like that in the late
1970s or early 1980s at Cranston-Csuri Graphics - 1 or 2MB of small RAM
chips and miles of wire-wrap wire. They did lots of sports animations for
grabbing your attention in commercials and between-segment spots as well as
the rotating wire-frame building at the start of "Overdrawn At The Memory
Bank", a Canadian production starring Raul Julia. The building is the
Huntington Bank building in Downtown Columbus, OH.
-ethan
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The last board
is a 919 UNIBUS connector with long cable connecting
into another drawer. That one is a backplane of unknown nature...
Quite likely. I know in years past, I worked with a unibus VAX that
had a drum transparency scanner attached... looked like unibus backplane
that had been completely rewired (or perhaps it started as bare card-edge
connectors and calling it _re_wired is inappropriate :-). There were a
half-dozen or so boards that had to be plugged into this special
section of backplane, each in the right slot.
It wouldn't surprise me a bit if your framebuffer/digitizer was done
similarly.