13 Nov
2005
13 Nov
'05
6:02 p.m.
On 11/13/2005 at 7:48 PM Joe R. wrote:
Are you sure that wasn't Tektronix 4051 COMPUTER
that you took them out
of???? I wasn't aware of any Tektronix "terminals" with a tape drive and a
6800 CPU.
It was the 405i--I got the drive and controller from a friend at Tek.
Terminal, computer, whatever--it was a long time ago.
But cool! It was amazing to watch it draw
characters. And then they'd
stay there until you pressed the ERASE key!
I remember using a Tek storage-tube terminal with two columns of 80 (I
think) characters. You could write, but not rewrite characters.
Cheers,
Chuck