23 Jan
2018
23 Jan
'18
10:35 a.m.
A few notes:
The experimental Ethernet speed was in fact 2.94 MHz: It's the Alto clock
divided by 2.
The Alto based printer was called "SLOT" -- Scanning Laser Output
Terminal. It was plugged into the Alto backplane and presented itself as a
hardware peripheral controlled by microcode (as was the case for all Alto
I/O). It was an Alto task, of course.
The vampire tap transceiver used RG-8 cable originally. That's before they
added the lines around the cable and added additional shielding.
The XGP was used at the Stanford AI Lab and was, as mentioned early, a dry
process. And it did use a roll of paper.