9 May
2007
9 May
'07
10:42 p.m.
In article <46424A45.1040100 at ao.com>,
Gary Oliver <go at ao.com> writes:
I managed to snag one of the plasma terminal modules
(not the entire
terminal - just the display guts with rear-projection screen) MANY years
ago from Godbout. After acquiring it, I spend several weeks tracking
down documentation and managed to obtain the manuals for the electrical
and logic hookup, so "some day" I'm going to build me a terminal...
Any chance these can get scanned and uploaded to bitsavers?
[...] Seemed to recall
the "serial interface" level of the plato terminal required something
like 18 bit "characters" sent TO the unit, with 12 bit "characters"
coming FROM the unit. [...]
Did the CDC machines use 6-bit characters in its raw form? I suspect
that the PLATO stuff ganged up multiple CDC hardware characters.
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