21 Jun
2000
21 Jun
'00
9:52 a.m.
Last I heard, 3M bought out COMTAL, then dropped them in the mid eighties.
If you peruse old Byte and Computer Graphics magazines you'll see ads for
the 3M Comtal machines. I've just got the box, it came from Wayne State
University's physics department, probably in use for some kind of wierd
partical accelerator results imaging, or something. Man, I miss having a
minivan...
----- Original Message -----
From: "Chuck McManis" <cmcmanis(a)mcmanis.com>
To: <classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org>
Sent: Wednesday, June 21, 2000 1:30 PM
Subject: Re: ADM's on list.
At 12:49 PM 6/21/00 -0400, Jason wrote:
>... my home linux box, which
>is mounted in a big COMTAL VISION/1 mainframe cage. At least I can
pretend
I'm using a
mainframe...
Oh man! What happened to the COMTAL ? I'd love to get my hands on a
VISION/1 or the earlier model which was 4' tall and had table top for the
big BARCO monitor that sat on top of it. I programmed the thing at the
Image Processing Institute at USC (source of about 99% of the images used
in Image processing research BTW)
--Chuck