12 Dec
2020
12 Dec
'20
6:51 p.m.
On Sat, Dec 12, 2020 at 6:31 PM Chris Zach <cz at alembic.crystel.com> wrote:
Something like this, then?
http://www.computinghistory.org.uk/det/17020/ICL-PERQ-2-T1-Workstation/
A bit more uncommon over here, I think...
The PERQ 1 was originally portrait, there were landscape options later on,
which became more prevalent with the T1 and T2 models.
Cool!
- Josh
DigiBarn has a
few pictures of a PERQ 1 and a T2:
http://www.digibarn.com/collections/systems/perqt2/index.html
Yep, the 1 is out, and one of the other two is a T2 like the picture.
There's the rarer PERQ 2, which I have a
picture of here:
Hm. The other one does not look like that, it is similar in shape to the
T2 but it's a different shape and says ICL on the front. I grabbed both
of the front panels because they were accessible, will post pics in a bit.
If you pull
the side, front, and rear panels off (be careful there --
the drives are mounted to the rear, and there are cables to deal with),
and pull the boards, it should be significantly lighter.
Ok. Next time I go over I'll see if I can at least uncover one. Maybe I
can stack the Sun gear where the Perq1 was.
Sounds like the newer-style portrait monitor for
the PERQ 2 to me.
Yeah, it reminded me of that 66 line terminal people had in the early
80's. It was up and down, not side to side, were the other monitors
landscape only?
And a big DB style plug to go into the computer.
Neither. Electromagnetic :). The Bit Pad One has a GPIB cable (which on
the T2 and maybe the T1 is a DB15), the Kriz tablet used a DB15 (IIRC).
It varies. See the Digibarn T2 pictures for one
example; the
Summagraphics Bit Pad One was another common option -- big white tablet
about 15" square with a 4-button wired puck. GPIB interface. There was
also the Kriz tablet which was smaller and had three buttons.
Ok, there are a lot of junk sun keyboards and mice in there and it's a
mess with all the general crud. What does the plug going to the Perq
look like? Are they optical or mechanical?
Looking forward to pictures!
I'll post some in a bit. Not very good ones, but best we can do.
Chris