Rick Bensene wrote:
The 4081 was a complete system, in a "desk"
format. The CPU was an
Interdata 7/16, not a 7/32. The CPU, Memory, Graphics Processor
(supporting both display-list vector refresh graphics and DVST-style
stored graphics), and I/O interfaces were housed inside a chassis in the
desk. The display was a high-performance DVST tube that sat on the
desktop, along with the keyboard and joystick.
The 4081 was not integrated into a 4014-style chassis.
The unidentified board may well be an Interdata CPU as suggested. There
were some systems that I saw that provided local intelligence within a
4014 terminal housing, but I can't recall if these were just prototypes,
or actually made it into production. I do recall a machine similar to a
4014 that used dual 8-inch floppy drives (mounted beneath the CRT), and
ran a version of CP/M, and I know that it made it into production, but
didn't use an Interdata processor, and I can't recall what the model of
the machine was. If I remember right, it used an 8086 processor.
This was the 4114 system. I have two in non-working condition. It was
introduced in 1982. There was
also a 4115 that used a raster display instead of the vector display.
Bob