8 Feb
2007
8 Feb
'07
6:06 a.m.
In article <011c01c74b32$54c67a10$6700a8c0 at HPLAPTOP>,
"Jay West" <jwest at classiccmp.org> writes:
I used to have a Visual terminal on my desk, complete
with Tek 4010
emulation. I thought it was rather unremarkable - I didn't like it.
I had no idea they were sought after.
As near as I can tell, there are like 3 people who care about
terminals: myself, Paul Shuford (who is the only source of online
information about many kinds of terminals) and Paul Williams (who runs
and maintains vt100.net).
Most terminals do not have graphics capability, just character
capability. Color graphics terminals are even scarcer. Terminals
that have 3D graphics builtin are even scarcer than that. The Visual
500 therefore is of interest to me because it is older and has
graphics. (Not all Visual terminals have graphics, but the 500 does.)
Who was the carrier? I had my first HP 264x term
arrive like that... very
busted up.
IIRC, it was UPS, but it wasn't the fault of the carrier but whoever
packed it. There was *nothing* in this box but a bunch of smashed
parts. No packing. No peanuts. No bubble wrap.
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