In article <ded268c40603292146x1b216c63j3e0613fb7907425f at mail.gmail.com>,
"Paxton Hoag" <innfoclassics at gmail.com> writes:
The 9200T terminal is probably a Tek 4107A from its
looks comparing it
and the one in the catalog. As for size and weight I seem to remember
that it is about 17 inches high by 15 or 16 inches wide (13 inch
screen, 640X480) and about 20 inches deep, weighing about 30 pounds. I
couldn't find any published specifications. I have found the keyboards
to be particularly fragile.
Sweet. This is just the kind of info I was looking for and is
consistent with my guesses based on photos and the size/weight of the
4105 -- which is 33 lbs, 20x17x20 plus another 5 lbs for the keyboard.
I'll make sure that they keyboards are packed with care if I purchase
these...
If I were to scan the catalog pages what would be the
best format to
save them in. I know this has been mentioned before and I should have
paid attention but only recently did I get a scanner that worked.
Bitsavers says:
"The preferred form for any contributed text scan is as a collection
of lossless Group 4 fax compression (ITU-T recommendation T.6)
images saved as TIFF files with a minium scan resolution of 400 dpi."
I think the guy at the Boat Anchor Manual Archive is happy to have
them in any-old format. (To be honest, I have no idea why bitsavers
prefers Group 4 fax compression.) The Tektronix catalogs I've seen
(1982: <ftp://bama.sbc.edu/downloads/tek/cat1982/Tektronix_1982.pdf>,
1985: <ftp://bama.sbc.edu/downloads/tek/cat1985/Tektronix_1985.pdf>)
were scanned in color, which is very helpful for a few reasons.
First, Tektronix had a tendency to mark new items by printing them in
the index in color. A B&W scan doesn't reveal this as readily.
Second, they had nice color pictures of the graphics terminals which
gave you more of a sense for their output. With things like manuals,
I wouldn't think color would normally be an issue -- typically there's
only the occasional photo.
So I would prefer color scans. Bitsavers requests the high resolution
(400dpi) for manuals because I think they're expecting that people are
scanning at 1bit/pixel which means you have to scan at high resolution
for character recognition to work well. For material with color
photos and lots of text intermixed (like the Tektronix catalogs), it
might be better to scan it both ways: one way for the visual appeal
and the other way for the eventual OCR of the data. With a PDF you
could even combine the two results to get a "pretty" PDF with color
pictures that you could text search.
As to Tektronix catalogs I have 1982, 84, 86, 88, 88
and 1994 and
would be happy to look things up. And no, they aren't for sale......
If anyone has Tektronix catalogs they want to part with, email me :-).
I was more interested in just getting at the information than having
my own catalogs though. With the 82 and 85 catalogs that are online
and the manuals at bitsavers, I have gotten most of the material I
needed so far. However, now I'm venturing out into territory that
isn't so well documented in the regular places, so I'm on the lookout
for any documentation related to the Tektronix terminals and/or
development systems.
The Video copier is a Japanese one I seem to remember
(Hitachi or
Mitsubishi?) and was B&W only.
HC = Hitachi Copier?
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