3 Feb
2012
3 Feb
'12
11:40 p.m.
In article <C9C36A4B-6956-4414-B389-0FF61E7B094A at cs.ubc.ca>,
Brent Hilpert <hilpert at cs.ubc.ca> writes:
There was the COMTAL image processor/display around
1974.
It's a little more than just a simple display but it was intended as
an IO device to hang off a mini or mainframe.
Mentioned in here:
http://www.oneonta.edu/faculty/baumanpr/geosat2/RS%20History%20II/
RS-History-Part-2.html
A brochure with some architectural description:
http://www.computerhistory.org/brochures/companies.php?alpha=a-
c&company=com-4374ca1b5a4a0
I remember playing with one in 1980.
Yeah, this isn't what I would call a terminal, but more typical of the
graphics systems of the time: a peripheral you would attach to a mini.
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