On Thu, Jan 27, 2005 at 04:11:22PM -0600, George Currie wrote: Although it was useful for those of us thinking of asking the same thing. Alas, I'm not going to be able to go to california anytime soon to pick up stuff. -- Joshua D. Boyd jdboyd(a)jdboyd.net http://www.jdboyd.net/ http://www.joshuaboyd.org/

Remind me to show you the manuals for my I2S 'image processor and display' units sometime. Late 1970's vintage, loads of TTL (a few thousand ICS!) and DRAMs The resolution is not great by today's standards (512*513 pixes, 24 or 30 bit colour), but they have some interesting features, like the 'feedback ALU' (regard 2 of the byteplanes as a 16 bit 'accumulator plane', then combine (essentially any of the functions available from the 74x181 ALU chip) the contents with the contents of another byteplane, the result going back to the accumulator). And I should also show you the manual for my HP1350 'Graphics Translator'. A device that takes in simplified HPGL over an HPIB interface and outputs X/Y/Z analogue signals to a vector display. The interesting thing is that it's all done with random logic, there's no processor, or anything resembling a processor, in there. -tony

On Fri, 28 Jan 2005, Jules Richardson wrote: I'll try to get some photos in a few days. Lyle Bickley may well be the taker. We took a closer look at it on Friday and it's an interested hodge podge bodge of a system. There's a Wyse PC stuck on top of the cabinet which contain's Stellars very large (2' high by 1.5' deep) custom boards. To the lower right of that is a VME bus with ESDI and SCSI controllers. Very odd. The PC has a Stellar made card that connects the PC's ISA bus to the Stellar bus. Lyle tells me the system ran some variant of Unix. The hard drive is missing so that was a serious buzzkill, but we think we may know where there's another one of these and assuming it has a hard drive we might be able to take it's image and "burn" it to a new hard drive for this one. -- Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ International Man of Intrigue and Danger http://www.vintage.org [ Old computing resources for business || Buy/Sell/Trade Vintage Computers ] [ and academia at www.VintageTech.com || at http://marketplace.vintage.org ]