24 Apr
2006
24 Apr
'06
7:39 p.m.
Where can I find information about it? There seems to be a dearth of
info online, despite DEC being really popular among collectors.
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24 Apr
24 Apr
9:02 p.m.
Where can I find information about it? There seems to
be a dearth of
info online, despite DEC being really popular among collectors.
'd have to hit the old documentation, and even then it will most likely
have to be specific to the terminal itself. Any doc's I've looked at barely
do more than mention it exists.
Warning, I don't think that this is something you're going to use without
a system like a VAX-11/780 to connect it to. As I recall it was connected
to the controller board in the VAX via a fibre optic cable.
Zane
9:41 p.m.
In article <200604250102.k3P12FoI029551 at onyx.spiritone.com>,
"Zane H. Healy" <healyzh at aracnet.com> writes:
Warning, I don't think that this is something
you're going to use without
a system like a VAX-11/780 to connect it to. As I recall it was connected
to the controller board in the VAX via a fibre optic cable.
Well a friend has one in his lab, and he reports using it but he
didn't specify what was on the other end of the conversation with the
terminal. I'll ask him about it.
I remember seeing one of these around 1980 and we were a PDP-11 shop,
so if it could *only* be connected to a VAX I don't know what we were
doing with one.
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26 Apr
26 Apr
1:11 a.m.
On 4/25/06, Zane H. Healy <healyzh at aracnet.com> wrote:
Warning, I don't think that this is something
you're going to use without
a system like a VAX-11/780 to connect it to.
There were quite a few programs written for the GIGI in the TOPS-20 world.
As I recall it was connected
to the controller board in the VAX via a fibre optic cable.
I don't recall any terminal that was optically coupled to a host
controller board. My recollection is that the GIGI is an 8085-based
character/ReGIS graphics terminal with an ordinary serial port.
-ethan
24 Apr
24 Apr
10:18 p.m.
Where can I find information about it? There seems to
be a dearth
of info online, despite DEC being really popular among collectors.
It's an ANSI/VT52/ReGIS graphics terminal, or a microcomputer with
a BASIC interpreter, depending on which way you boot it. It was
typically connected to a Barco graphics monitor.
Try looking for VK100, and for ReGIS graphics.
http://www.daedalus.co.nz/don/computing/gigi.html
http://vt100.net/emu/
http://www.computer.museum.uq.edu.au/unfinished/AA-K335A-TK%20GIGI%20BASIC%…
http://www.computer.museum.uq.edu.au/unfinished/EK-VK100-IN-002%20GIGI%20Te…
http://www.computer.museum.uq.edu.au/unfinished/EK-VK100-TM-001%20VK100%20T…
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