1 Dec
2006
1 Dec
'06
5:45 p.m.
In article <777655.88883.qm at web61017.mail.yahoo.com>,
Chris M <chrism3667 at yahoo.com> writes:
Yes it depends also on what you want to call a
computer. Most of us want to pump diskettes into it
and whatnot, but I opened up an IBM terminal some
years ago and found alot of the guts of a typical
peecee. No, it probably didn't have any provision for
connecting anything but the k/b and display, but it
just goes to show how definitions can be open to
interpretation.
They say the microprocessor was invented to make terminals
inexpensive. For my purposes, terminal applies to anything designed
to act as such. Most have microprocessors with RAM and ROM, which
makes up a basic computer system. But they aren't designed to be used
as end-user computers, they're designed to talk serial I/O to some
remote computer if they're a terminal. That's why a regular PC with
terminal emulation software for the serial port doesn't count as a
terminal by my definition :-).
I'd like to get my hands on one of those. Thought
it
might be fun to see what it would take to make a full
fledged pc out of it. A new chip there...solder a few
jumpers there...;). And the thing was capable of
analog color IIRC. I don't recall their being an
intensity input.
Just so everyone knows, I'm not interested in a Hazeltine computer, so
if anyone wants it they won't be bidding against me :-).
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