8 Mar
2008
8 Mar
'08
7:14 p.m.
On Saturday 08 March 2008 19:50, davis wrote:
An apocryphal story I heard was that the graphics on
the display are
disk/?drum refreshed. If true, I assume you would need the better
part of a CDC 6x00 to get anything out of it.
I know that that's not correct. They can display parts of memory in
realtime (a changeable address). From my (hazy) memory, I think they
were a vector display, which did a text to vector conversion in the
console hardware. I don't know how much cabling there was to connect
it to the system itself, the 6x00 series of CDC stuff was a bit before
my time. :)
Some others on the list should know a bit more about it than I do. :)
Pat
--
Purdue University ITAP/RCAC --- http://www.rcac.purdue.edu/
The Computer Refuge --- http://computer-refuge.org