6 Feb
2012
6 Feb
'12
1:44 p.m.
The ISC 8001 19" got lots of service in industrial control rooms. Several companies
rebadged it (USDATA, Dynapro, Allen Bradley). With character graphics and a special ISA
character set it did extremely well in fast screen updates and animation. (Think valves
and pipes turning red/green, tanks filling up, etc.) Impressive for a 2MHz 8080.
Date: Sun, 5 Feb 2012 19:36:50 -0800
From: eric at brouhaha.com
To:
Subject: Re: ISC history
Richard wrote:
Lots of stuff from the 70s and 80s survived,
otherwise we wouldn't
have any PDP-11s, VT100s, etc.
Only a tiny fraction of the PDP-11s, VT100s, etc. survived. The vast
majority were scrapped.
While there may have been a lot of ISC terminals made, for some value of
"lot", the number obviously was orders of magnitude fewer than VT100s.