Hey all --
Picked up an old dumb terminal (and I feel secure in calling this one
"old") today at Re-PC in Tukwila, WA (I'm starting to really dig this
place...). It's a CDC, labeled on the back as a "Display Terminal" (go
figure), Equip. Id #CC5A5-A, Series Code 2, Part #15551800. I haven't
been able to find any information on this beast at all on the 'net.
I've put up some pictures here:
http://yahozna.dyndns.org/computers/cdcterminal/ (Haven't had a chance
to clean it up yet, so it's kinda smudgy...)
My favorite thing about this terminal is the huge, backlit buttons on
the front for Power, etc... very cool :). I've powered it up after
giving it a check-out, and it appears to work fine. I haven't hooked it
up to a serial line yet, but that's coming... maybe Linux has a termcap
entry for this thing? :)
Opening it up reveals repair tags with dates in 1974. There are four
PCBs mounted inside, connected by a ton of ribbon connectors (there's no
backplane to speak of). Looks like it's all TTL, though I haven't taken
the boards out to investigate. Not sure I want to disturb them :).
Anyone know anything about this thing? What's it capable of? What was
it originally connected to?