19 Jun
2021
19 Jun
'21
8:35 a.m.
One of the original UCSD Pascal team contacted me, asking if
any of my Teraks are still working. Sadly, they don't.
I seem to remember hearing on the list that someone had re-capped and
re-socketed their Terak, and that it's working.
He wants to get video of an original, working Terak to demonstrate
the UCSD Pascal menu system. He wants to show how the UCSD Pascal
menu system could've influenced Apple's menus on the Lisa.
Yes, I pointed out that you can run it under emulation.
- John
19 Jun
19 Jun
10:06 a.m.
I have a sage II on the table that boots pascal os and the orig menu if
that helps
Bill
On Sat, Jun 19, 2021, 8:41 AM John Foust via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
wrote:
One of the original UCSD Pascal team contacted me, asking if
any of my Teraks are still working. Sadly, they don't.
I seem to remember hearing on the list that someone had re-capped and
re-socketed their Terak, and that it's working.
He wants to get video of an original, working Terak to demonstrate
the UCSD Pascal menu system. He wants to show how the UCSD Pascal
menu system could've influenced Apple's menus on the Lisa.
Yes, I pointed out that you can run it under emulation.
- John
6:53 p.m.
On 6/19/21 10:06 AM, Bill Degnan via cctalk wrote:
I have a sage II on the table that boots pascal os and
the orig menu if
that helps
Bill
On Sat, Jun 19, 2021, 8:41 AM John Foust via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
wrote:
>
> One of the original UCSD Pascal team contacted me, asking if
> any of my Teraks are still working. Sadly, they don't.
>
> I seem to remember hearing on the list that someone had re-capped and
> re-socketed their Terak, and that it's working.
>
> He wants to get video of an original, working Terak to demonstrate
> the UCSD Pascal menu system. He wants to show how the UCSD Pascal
> menu system could've influenced Apple's menus on the Lisa.
>
> Yes, I pointed out that you can run it under emulation.
>
> - John
>
>
I was confused by the original message. I have run UCSD-Pascal
on a number of systems and all of them had the same menuing
system. I imagine running Teraks are becoming a rarity. While
I could probably fake it by putting Terak boards in a real PDP-11
backplane none of my Teraks are still intact. No real Terak
monitors but they will display on a composite monitor.
On top of that, Ersaztz-11 does Terak emulation so you could
always use that if the only desire is to photograph the menus.
bill
11:45 a.m.
On Sat, Jun 19, 2021 at 5:41 AM John Foust via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
wrote:
One of the original UCSD Pascal team contacted me, asking if
any of my Teraks are still working. Sadly, they don't.
I seem to remember hearing on the list that someone had re-capped and
re-socketed their Terak, and that it's working.
That might have been me. I have a working Terak and can set it up to
demonstrate stuff, though I may need to find a better camera for capturing
video...
- Josh
He wants to get video of an original, working Terak to demonstrate
the UCSD Pascal menu system. He wants to show how the UCSD Pascal
menu system could've influenced Apple's menus on the Lisa.
Yes, I pointed out that you can run it under emulation.
- John
11:50 a.m.
off topic, but since Teraks came up
does anyone have boot disks for the later Calcomp Teraks that have an NEC 7220
graphics color graphics board?
20 Jun
20 Jun
7:04 p.m.
At 10:50 AM 6/19/2021, you wrote:
off topic, but since Teraks came up
does anyone have boot disks for the later Calcomp Teraks that have an NEC 7220
graphics color graphics board?
I have one 8600 color (Q-Bus add-on, separate box) system I inherited from
a Terak founder. His estate didn't provide disks. I believe his nephew
got all the disks but I don't think he's ever answered my emails. Apart
from the software, I imagine there must be a companion
card for it that
goes in an 8510 - I don't think I have that.
I think Cyrus Smith (once of Electric Image) had a color system but
last time I asked he said it might be "gone."
- John
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