Intro msg: Teraks, emulators, reviving cassette data

At 10:31 AM 11/24/97 -0600, John wrote: very cool machine for its time. now seemingly very collectible (i don't think they sold too many of them). i had one on my desk for a few years in the 1981-82 timeframe. built like a tank. ran UCSD pascal (full source code of course). memory mapped video could be mapped into user program space so that you could do stuff like watch the bits in your various storage locations in real time while your program ran. mine had monochrome video but I seem to recall they had a color model? I think these were quite pricey a the time (like $10K or something?) sadly I mostly just used this as a terminal to connect to our DEC (TOPS-10) minicomputer! (although I did write some simple fortran programs on the RT11 side). I know there's a web site on the Net called "Terak Museum" but it's not responding at the moment... - glenn