10 Oct
2007
10 Oct
'07
7:44 a.m.
At 11:22 PM 10/9/2007, you wrote:
Yep, I remember finding your page when I saw a Terak on
ebay a year or
so ago. Even though I don't know much about them, it's in my top-5
wanted items list. Must be the unique-factor. Same goes for the
Symbolics machines :)
There was a Terak on eBay!? Wow. Never saw that. What did it go for?
I have four or five 8510/a's and matching monitors, plus a box or two
of parts, as well as a rare hard drive. I know another fellow from
my old days in the computer graphics business who has a slightly
larger pile as well as a color Terak or two.
I have a lot of other computers that I'd give away before I'd give away
these, just on the theory that you should pick one system and specialize,
as well as my baby-duck affection for having used them in college
approximately 53 million years ago.
When they asked me to bring a working Terak to the 25-year UCSD Pascal
reunion a few years ago, I was sad to discover that my last working
unit no longer powered-on. When I get around to it, I'll need to figure
out why. The other long-standing to-do item would be to create
extensions for one of the PDP-11 emulators to match the Terak's hardware.
- John