7 Jul
2012
7 Jul
'12
1:50 p.m.
Date: Fri, 06 Jul 2012 22:35:02 +0100
From: Mark Wickens <mark at wickensonline.co.uk>
To: General Discussion: On-Topic Posts Only <cctech at classiccmp.org>
Subject: DEC Flat Panel circa 1987
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In the ;
Ken Olsen Thank You Employees
video on youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vDjbTuwLqA&feature=related
I noticed this: http://www.wickensonline.co.uk/images/flat-panel.jpg -
the talk around this image is DEC World 1987.
Of this screen grab I know: VSXXX-GA mouse, LK201-AA keyboard.
Can anyone provide any more information please?
OK, that is almost certainly a Burroughs plasma panel, the orange color
is a giveaway, also
the date. The technology was partly pioneered by William Papian, who
worked with
Jay Forrester on coincident current core memory and then worked on gas
display
panels at Washington University in the 60's and 70's. One of the really
unknown
pioneers of the early computer days. As for a manufactured product from
DEC,
I don't recall such a model.
Jon
