5 Feb
2008
5 Feb
'08
9:37 p.m.
On Wed, 6 Feb 2008, Ethan Dicks wrote:
On Tue, Feb 05, 2008 at 06:25:48PM -0800, Roger Ivie wrote:
I mean that it had a tube in place of the front of the box. There were
no drives poking out the front. The tube took up the whole front of the
box:
+------------------------------------+
|+----------------------------------+|
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|| wide, short tube ||
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|+----------------------------------+|
+------------------------------------+
Thinking about it, it might have been just a monitor intended to stack
on top of the DECmate III; that wouldn't need drives or much inside
besides the power supply and the tube.
--
roger ivie
rivie at ridgenet.net
I did once see a prototype for something called a
"Tubemate". Imagine
the DECmate III/MicroVAX 2000 box with a small wide-format CRT instead
of the front panel; something that could do, say, 80x12 instead of
80x24. This was allegedly a DECmate variant, however, rather than a VAX.
Hmm... I'm having problems envisioning it... I don't think of the
DECmate or the uVAX2K as having a "front panel". Do you mean that there
was a wee CRT behind the flap, in the 5.25"-wide space where the drives
go? The VT50 was 80x12, so it's not like there wouldn't be any software
that expected to see such a screen, but most apps, I'd think, would want
the "full" 24 lines.