24 Feb
2012
24 Feb
'12
7:30 a.m.
--- On Fri, 2/24/12, steven stengel <tosteve at yahoo.com> wrote:
A guy sent me this photo, of his
one-piece PR1ME (spelled with s number 1) terminal. They
were big in the 70's, not so much in the 80's.
Is this something rare?
http://oldcomputers.net/temp/prime-terminal.jpg
That is a Perkin-Elmer 1200 "Owl" terminal, rebadged by Prime. Prime's old
logo was the PR1ME, later simply changed to PRIME. Prime made minicomputers in the
70's through the 90's, and these terminals were popular in the 70's. Later on,
Prime made their own terminals (well, kinda, I think they OEM'ed them out somewhere,
but they had custom firmware).
I'd say it's fairly rare, you don't see them turn up all that often. They did
make a lot of them, and they were pretty inexpensive for the time. I can't imagine too
many would have survived though. The ones badged Perkin Elmer may be more common.
Of course, as a Prime computer collector, I have to ask, wanna sell it? :D
-Ian
