At 10:20 PM 5/6/2005, Ethan Dicks wrote: Come to think of it, I'm sure classic VR gear will be very, very rare for collectors. Best I've got is two pair of LCD shutter-glasses, one for PC, one for Amiga. I've willed my collection of "Morph's Outpost" to Sellam. Or maybe I should just send it to him now. Even Jaron Lanier has slightly apologized: http://www.advanced.org/jaron/topeleven.html - John

Somewhere I've got a couple of pairs of LCD glasses for an Evans and Sutherland PS390 display system... And yes, I do have the controller for them (which is very simple) and the rest of the PS290 (which is very complicated). -tony

On Fri, 2005-05-06 at 21:34 -0500, Scott Stevens wrote: Well, back in 1996 I was involved in a large client-server Java project for a company that attempted to drag SSA's business planning / control software into something resembling modern times... Their software was all based on AS/400s with users sitting at dumb terminals at this time; the only way for us to intelligently talk to the back-end servers was via screen-scraping middleware. Long story short though, we ended up with about 30k lines of client and server Java code, plus a million or so lines of autogenerated code to produce the screen layouts which mimiced the fields that a user of a dumb terminal would see, with the client-side code all running in a browser. It was probably one of the first serious attempts anywhere at server- side Java, as well as one of the biggest Java apps around, and certainly proved that the technology worked. (I remember we got early access to Sun's attempts at a Java NC, and they were bloody awful bits of equipment) SSA's big clients were using all sorts of hardware alongside the big AS/400 systems and terminals, so the fact we could run on anything that supported a Java VM was a definite bonus. Of course it was too little too late for SSA; they'd spent the preceding years just selling the same old stuff whilst competitors like SAP were moving with the times... cheers Jules