13 Mar
2013
13 Mar
'13
9:25 p.m.
On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 9:38 PM, Brent Hilpert <hilpert at cs.ubc.ca> wrote:
As Rob pointed out, the 9830 one must be special order
to HP though, to
obtain the lazy-T cursor, unless there's some alternative tortured way
they're injecting the T into the display scanning that I'm not seeing.
Thank you for mentioning this. I've asked on the list now and again about
a computer I used c. 1976 that had a "lazy-T cursor". I was quite young
at the time and it was only brought to our school for a special occasion,
so my memories are quite fuzzy about it, but having now googled with
some useful keywords, I'm reasonably certain that the device I was trying
to describe was an HP 9830 with an HP 9860 mark-sense card reader.
It seems unlikely I'll ever end up with one, so I'm happy to have found
this emulator, updated less than a year ago...
http://sourceforge.net/projects/hp9800e/files/go9800/
Thanks again for the very helpful nudge in precisely the correct direction!
-ethan