Control Data CDC Plato system available in Minneapolis

Your inability to find a Uniscope has nothing to do with it. Sure, it could mean that they really are unobtainable, and no amount of looking will turn up another - but it also could mean that you are having bad luck at it, or even that you are not looking very hard. For all you know, their could be one in the cellar in the house across the street Uniscopes are small enough that they can hide in a cellar or warehouse. It is reasonable to think that guys may have dragged them home in the 1970s, as a way to talk to their Imsai. I was thinking the very first Tek terminals (4001?). No, but try to find a serious DECcollector that does not want one. Learn. The brain of the 2260 is the 2848 Control Unit, and it actually has the frame buffer, control logic, comms, etc. for a number of 2260s, which are nothing more than video monitors with keyboards. Big box, with a mercury delay line system inside. It would be unreasonable to think that any of these were saved, but as we all know, people have saved weird things. -- Will