10 Apr
2006
10 Apr
'06
6:31 p.m.
In article <Pine.SUN.4.20.0604102120370.2733-100000 at osfn.org>,
William Donzelli <aw288 at osfn.org> writes:
Sweet. Lots of bitsavers material for me to digest.
Was the 5250 graphics capable?
Speaking of
big IBM boxes... what sort of boxes did they offer for
3D graphics support prior to the RS/6000?
2250 could be attached to an S/360 system. About 15 years ago I saw some sort of CAD system
running on a 3081. I do
not recall the tubes.
Usually the tubes are not the interesting part :-). The graphics
processors are the interesting part. For instance, an Evans &
Sutherland Picture System is a combination of a host interface and a
tube. The tube alone isn't nearly as interesting as the tube with the
interface card. Its nigh impossible to get the tube to do anything
interesting without the card, whereas sometimes you can cobble up the
reverse.
There is also the 6361 Fastdraft, an S/1 processor and
a third party 3D
vector engine.
More stuff to check into, thanks.
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