Richard wrote:
At the very least it would be interesting to
add a USB port to the Tektronix this way to give it a higher serial
transfer rate. The number and complexity of the dynamic vectors that
you can draw is currently limited by the baud rate on the port, but I
assume that if you get a faster communications channel, then there's
probably a limit based on how fast they can slew the electron beam.
That was the impression I got at the time. Of course it's been *mumble*
years. (You know, it's really sad when you find yourself counting how
many decades something's been.) One of my college roommates did
his senior project setting up an LSI-11 as a front end for the 4014.
He didn't integrate into the card cage, but I seem to remember that
he didn't just hook it up to the RS-232 port either, but he may have.
That bit's rather fuzzy. I seem to remember that he found it really
didn't help much on the speed of drawing. But I think it was more
a matter of comm speed rather than what the terminal could do.
BLS