24 Nov
1997
24 Nov
'97
5:31 a.m.
Why, I thought I'd get a few replies about my Terak computer
collection, as described in my intro message on 11/18.
Anyone out there have any experience with these?
- John
www.threedee.com/jcm
24 Nov
24 Nov
12:17 p.m.
At 10:31 AM 11/24/97 -0600, John wrote:
Why, I thought I'd get a few replies about my Terak
computer
collection...Anyone out there have any experience with these?
very cool machine for its time. now seemingly very collectible (i don't
think they sold too many of them). i had one on my desk for a few years in
the 1981-82 timeframe. built like a tank. ran UCSD pascal (full source
code of course). memory mapped video could be mapped into user program
space so that you could do stuff like watch the bits in your various
storage locations in real time while your program ran. mine had monochrome
video but I seem to recall they had a color model? I think these were
quite pricey a the time (like $10K or something?)
sadly I mostly just used this as a terminal to connect to our DEC (TOPS-10)
minicomputer! (although I did write some simple fortran programs on the
RT11 side).
I know there's a web site on the Net called "Terak Museum" but it's not
responding at the moment...
- glenn
12:40 p.m.
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4:24 p.m.
At 06:17 PM 11/24/97 -0500, Glenn Roberts wrote:
sadly I mostly just used this as a terminal to connect
to our DEC (TOPS-10)
minicomputer! (although I did write some simple fortran programs on the
RT11 side).
Although a DECsystem10 was around only 1MIPS I doubt anyone who'd seen one
(or even better used one) would call it a minicomputer! As far as I'm
concerned our DEC-10 was a mainframe (probably the only system worthy of
that description that was ever housed at La Trobe University even though
our smallest Unix server here now could probably emulate the -10 better
than the original hardware ever could).
A Terak in the collection would be nice, but a Pascal MicroEngine would be
better!
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