more interesting finds! - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

25 Nov 1998

...
 I went to a scrap place yesterday and found a couple of
interesting items.
One is a 16K core memory board for a Data General Nova. Huge sucker!  It's
marked "DATA GENERAL CORP  DGC NOVA 800 16K MEMORY STACK copyright 1973".
Anyone need this or should I just hang it on the wall to admire? 
Someone with a Nova could want it :-)

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   I also found several odd looking boxs that are labled
as HDS ViewStation.
they're made by a company called Human Designed Systems.  They're about 2"
tall and 12" square. They have connectors for all the following; thick and
thin ethernet, twisted pair, sun keyboard, standard PC keyboard, RJ serial
port, DB-25 serial, DB-25 parallel, PS-2 mouse and standard VGA video.
Does anyone know what these are 
Very versatile terminals.  Plug in a monitor, plug in a keyboard, you have
a terminal over the DB25 or RJ serial connector.  Plug in the Ethernet, you 
have TCP/IP and LAT connectivity. I believe that certain models were also
X-terminals (though I never used any as such.)

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  or why they have so many ports?   
So you can hook up whichever keyboard, printer, and computer however
you find most convenient. :-)

Tim.