computergraphicsmuseum.com URL

Cool, I hope it takes off. One trivia point. On the "4010" page, the third photo over (B&W, w/hood) is a 4012, not a 4010. I think the graphics specs were the same, but it could do lower-case text (4010 was upper-case only) and it might have had some extended interface options (parallel I/O?). I was an intern at Tektronix around '79-80. Have you ever run across any scraps of info about the Tek 4016, 4081 or 4027? The 4081: Full "workstation" with a 16 bit mini built into a side cabinet, with two cartridge disk packs (roughly RK-05 sized, but the ones that dropped down into a drawer. The CPU was roughly equivalent to an PDP-11/05, but was some off-brand make (DG? Perkin-Elmer?) It had a 4014-style tube driven directly by the CPU. It ran a proprietary RT11-like OS called "GOS". Reportedly the pet project of the son of one of the company founders. The 4016: Big brother of the 4014; the screen was maybe 30% larger - huge. It could easily fit four (maybe five?) columns of text. The flash from the screen erase was probably the equivalent of a chest X-ray (multiple flood guns!). The one I played with was an engineering prototype; not sure they ever left the lab. The 4027: Tek's first attempt at a color raster graphics terminal. Used an under-powered eight bit micro (8085?) to interpret a complex serial command language and draw the graphics. It was slow. Like watching paint dry slow. And big and expensive and heavy. Total market flop. It would be amazing if any of these still exist - they were scarce when I saw them back in Tek's computer graphics glory days. Cheers, jp