13 Jul
2011
13 Jul
'11
7:32 p.m.
On 13 Jul 2011 at 21:57, William Donzelli wrote:
CRT terminals extend well back into the mid 60s. Bunker-Ramo, in
particular had some very advanced units; e.g., the 213. While
looking for some photos of the 213 and the 203, I ran across this
document from 1967 that describes an online data retrieval system
using what looks like a 213:
http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19670030754_19670
30754.pdf
Si Ramo is still with us, the last I heard (he'd be 98).
The VT05 was a newcomer. I believe that the Datapoint 3300 even beat
it by a year or so, even if DEC called it the VT06.
--Chuck
"One of
the first CRT terminals ever made."
I guess any claim, no matter how fallacious will do to sell things.
In the grand scheme of things, is that claim really all that false?
Out of the tens of thousands of different species of terminals in the
past 50-odd years, VT05 is pretty damn early in the game.