Picked up an old terminal today (even though I'm *supposed* to be
slimming down my collection... sigh). Just couldn't resist.
Its only identifying marks either internally or externally are the name
"Infoton". There does not appear to be a model designation.
I've put up some pictures at
http://yahozna.dyndns.org/scratch/infoton/
(warning: large images)
Logic appears to be TTL, there is no CPU as far as I can tell. Date
codes on ICs are from '72-'73, and one of the boards and the keyboard
PCB have labels indicating "12/73" so I assume this particular model is
from late 1973. It appears to talk current loop and
RS-232 but I have
no idea what the wiring for the connector is (or even what *kind*
of
connector it is -- see the pictures above).
I haven't had a chance to clean it up yet, but after a bit of contact
cleaner on the power switch, it appears to work fine, at least in local
mode. Seems to do 80x24 chars, uppercase only with underlining. Infoton
shows up in termcap/terminfo entries, so that's a good start...
Anyone know anything else about this beast (history, tech specs, etc?) I
believe, from my research thus far, that Infoton later became General
Terminal. (General Terminal is rather hard to search for on the 'net
due to it being a fairly common phrase... so I'm not sure how helpful
that's going to be...)
Thanks as always,
Josh