15 Jul
2018
15 Jul
'18
4:20 p.m.
You missed the vcfed link.
According to the TekWeek article, they used 4051?s. Though I doubt that?s what they used
for the Vipers.
That Viper photo from your 4054 is pretty darn cool. It makes me want to own a Tek
terminal, something I?ve never said before. :-)
My only exposure to the 4010 series was one that was hooked up to a Honeywell DPS-8
Mainframe that I worked on.
In light of the demo?s you?re looking for, Westgate Theater was a mile or two from the
main Tektronix campus. It holds the record for the longest continuous run of showing Star
Wars. Starting in ?77 it ran for 532 days straight. The sign on the road out front
started showing how many days they?d been showing it, before it hit 365 days. I suspect
that helps explain the number of Star Wars related demo?s. :-)
Zane
On Jul 15, 2018, at 2:45 PM, Monty McGraw
<mmcgraw74 at gmail.com> wrote:
Zane,
I have been searching for the Battlestar Galactica programs or data files since I got my
4052 and 4054 in 2000.
We may have to recreate them from the couple of screenshots on the web :)
The closeup screenshots on the TV shows may have been from 4010 series Tektronix
monitors. I haven't seen any other info on the web from folks actually involved in
helping during the taping of those shows.
I created a program in 2000 in honor of Battlestar Galactica titled Vipers. That program
is posted on the Tek 4051 Emulator github site.
Here is a link to my post on vcfed - which has a screenshot from running it on the
emulator - since I had not repaired my 4052 or 4054 until a month or so later.
Here is a link showing running Vipers on my repaired 4054:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1G3Xk-B5ZgUFYUTBrK3VevoqMXs_PIGsx/view?usp=…
<https://drive.google.com/file/d/1G3Xk-B5ZgUFYUTBrK3VevoqMXs_PIGsx/view?usp=sharing>
The random number printout at the bottom of the screen - showed my 4054 had just been
upgraded to a 4054A from an upgrade kit I bought in 2000 off EBAY but had not installed.
:)
Monty