25 Mar
2018
25 Mar
'18
7:11 a.m.
On Mar 24, 2018, at 22:29, Michael Brutman via cctalk
<cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
Picture here: https://i.imgur.com/ClCw070.jpg <https://i.imgur.com/ClCw070.jpg>
Neat! I haven't seen one of those since 1987, when I briefly played with a workstation
that had one of those in an unguarded computer room in college. It was running some sort
of CAD demo in which you could rotate, translate, and scale a wireframe model with the
dials. I seem to recall that it was propped up diagonally on some sort of stand, but I
don't remember if that was a standard feature vs. something cobbled together locally.
Good luck learning how to talk to it. I can think of a number of different applications in
which a physical interface like that might be nice.
--
Mark J. Blair, NF6X <nf6x at nf6x.net>
http://www.nf6x.net/
