29 Mar
2008
29 Mar
'08
10:10 p.m.
On Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 10:26 AM, John Floren <slawmaster at gmail.com> wrote:
Well, I'd be happy to get a Gnot too, I even saw
one when I visited
Bell Labs (got to play with the red mouse too), but the Blit has more
charm to it. The monochrome screen, the portrait orientation... just
fun. Anybody who hasn't seen the 1982 video introducing the Blit,
check out http://herpolhode.com/rob/movies/blit.mpg
Way cool! I had never seen or heard of this video. I've got a 5620
that came along with the 3B2/300 I picked up a year or so back. It
thankfully had the keyboard and wild red mouse too. The terminal
works, although the mouse doesn't track very well. Love those
microswitches in the buttons! Sadly the 3B2's hard drive is near
death so it's not yet a working machine. It did spin up long enough
*once* to see Unix booting on the 5620, but not long enough to see
Layers in action. I did get to see that on SDF's term at VCF last
year, however:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/chiclassiccomp/1971533476/in/set-7215760309368…