30 Apr
1998
30 Apr
'98
3:42 p.m.
Tony Duell wrote:
Who else remembers those adverts in Byte for some kind of terminal
emulation software which showed what to do with your 'obsolete' VT100
after you used said software? I recall a fishtank, gerbil/hamster/mouse
cage, dolls house, and I think there were more.
Actually, I think it was a series of cartoons in Kilobaud(or maybe even
80-Micro).
Hmm, a
list of computers that look good enough to display as art? Here's
mine (most are laptops):
IMSAI 8080
GRiD Compass
Ampere WS1
MINDSET PC (good enough for MOMA, anyway)
NeXT Cube
eMate 300
Of course you guys have heard of converting a Mac into a fish tnak?
Actually, the VT100 does have a rather nice look to it. If you insist
that only computers go on the above list, I'll list it as a VT103.
Also, although I've only seen pictures of it (I would like one...) the
AT&T 3B1 is IMHO quite a nice looking machine.
The 3B1 is a bit lumpy, due to the squarish hump in the case to fit
the full-height hard disk. The 7300 was the beauty -- especially if
you can find the late-model keyboard. While I have to use my PC
keyboard as the X input to my main Linux box, the 7300 (well, one of
them) is the true console in VT-100 emulation with all system
messages recorded to disk instead of going where forgotten electrons
go. A trick I developed at the San Jose Unisys plant when I was
doing SQA for the U-6000 servers in the building where the 7300/3B1
were designed, though I didn't go to work there until almost four
years after the darling was discoed. But there were quite a few
laying around -- I had three in my cube.
--
Ward Griffiths
They say that politics makes strange bedfellows.
Of course, the main reason they cuddle up is to screw somebody else.
Michael Flynn, _Rogue Star_