24 Feb
2012
24 Feb
'12
5:18 p.m.
It's not mine - I will forward your request.
--- On Fri, 2/24/12, Mr Ian Primus <ian_primus at yahoo.com> wrote:
From: Mr Ian Primus <ian_primus at yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: What is this: PR1ME computer terminal
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic Posts Only" <cctech at classiccmp.org>
Date: Friday, February 24, 2012, 4:30 AM
--- On Fri, 2/24/12, steven stengel
<tosteve at yahoo.com>
wrote:
A guy sent me this photo, of his
one-piece PR1ME (spelled with s number 1) terminal.
They
were big in the 70's, not so much in the
80's.
Is this something rare?
http://oldcomputers.net/temp/prime-terminal.jpg
That is a Perkin-Elmer 1200 "Owl" terminal, rebadged by
Prime. Prime's old logo was the PR1ME, later simply changed
to PRIME. Prime made minicomputers in the 70's through the
90's, and these terminals were popular in the 70's. Later
on, Prime made their own terminals (well, kinda, I think
they OEM'ed them out somewhere, but they had custom
firmware).
I'd say it's fairly rare, you don't see them turn up all
that often. They did make a lot of them, and they were
pretty inexpensive for the time. I can't imagine too many
would have survived though. The ones badged Perkin Elmer may
be more common.
Of course, as a Prime computer collector, I have to ask,
wanna sell it? :D
-Ian
