14 Mar
2019
14 Mar
'19
11:52 a.m.
On Mar 13, 2019, at 8:40 PM, Paul Koning
<paulkoning at comcast.net> wrote:
I found the answer. My Spanish is nearly non-existent, but I can puzzle out just enough
of this https://ddd.uab.cat/pub/tesis/2002/tdx-0218103-190320/ccs12de16.pdf . On page
17-18 it describes the system used at the Eugene Register-Guard". It's a
three-node 11/70 system, running TMS-11, EMS-11, CMS-11, with 120 VT-72 terminals and an
unstated number of VT61 terminals.
EMS-11 is a refinement of TMS-11 that came out around 1979 or 1980 (also known as TMS-11
V5, I think). It put a thin database on top of the file based document handling that was
there before, so instead of seeing 9.3 RSX-style file names the customer would see
articles named by freeform text phrases. The Denver Post was the beta site for that
product; I got to babysit the initial deployment which was fun because it didn't
involve real work (nothing went wrong).
The document also mentions CPMS-11, which is "Classified page makeup system"
(i.e., page layout) and refers to the Tektronix 4016 it used.
I also see the CHM has a few TMS-11 documents, presumably not yet scanned.
paul
On Mar 13, 2019, at 8:07 PM, Rick Bensene
<rickb at bensene.com> wrote:
Paul K. wrote:
An article about those terminals also turns up the 4016 (25 inch tube -- 4014 is 19
inches). I'm not sure any more which of the two it was.
paul TMS-11 did support some specialized devices that
could do more. There
was the classified page layout system using a Tek 4010 style
display
(4015? A BIG tube).
The big-tube Tektronix DVST (Direct View Storage Terminal) terminal was
the 4014. The tube used in that terminal was the largest production
DVST tube that Tektronix made.
It was also used in the 4054 computer.