9 Oct
2013
9 Oct
'13
2:36 p.m.
On 9 October 2013 17:11, David Riley <fraveydank at gmail.com> wrote:
A T-11 is somewhat more limited than an LSI-11, but
yes. I'd argue that
if you were to sacrifice something to get a T-11, it should be one of the
many medical devices that used them instead of a VS240, but it WOULD be
pretty neat to run custom code talking directly to the framebuffer
(assuming that's how it actually works in the VS240; I haven't looked).
Hmm... didn't the Soviet Elektronika BK machines -- which are PDP-11
clones with a custom video and keyboard interface -- do something akin
to that idea? The framebuffer of the VT241 is most probably different
from the video on the BK, but they did both use T-11s
(or a Soviet
clone of the T-11); so could one possibly "massage" a set of
BK ROMs
into something that could possibly make the VT-241 into something akin
to the BK (a PDP-11 based home computer in the vein of a C64, or ZX
Spectrum, or...) though... it does have the issue of lacking an
expansion port that'd let you hook on disk drives or any sort of mass
storage.
Cheers,
Christian
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Christian M. Gauger-Cosgrove
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