17 Feb
2009
17 Feb
'09
1:49 p.m.
See ebay item # 360132413754
That listing just includes the base unit, but thankfully has closeup
pictures of the connectors on the back.
It looks like it takes AUI ethernet or RS-232 and outputs RGB video.
Anyone familiar with these puppies? I've not seen one before.
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17 Feb
17 Feb
2:44 p.m.
Richard wrote:
See ebay item # 360132413754
That listing just includes the base unit, but thankfully has closeup
pictures of the connectors on the back.
It looks like it takes AUI ethernet or RS-232 and outputs RGB video.
Anyone familiar with these puppies? I've not seen one before.
Heck, that's interesting. I'll dig in my notes in a bit in case they shed any
light, but some speculation follows...
That case style remarkably like my XD88, only cut down in height. I wondered
at first if it was indeed a complete UTek-capable UNIX box but intended to run
an external disk (most of the XD88's case height is due to the full-height
drives inside) - but the lack of a obvious disk port (it'd logically have a
Centronics SCSI port where the "computer" label is) suggests that isn't the
case.
It could, I suppose, be designed to boot and run solely from an OS image on a
remote system via the Ethernet port. It might also contain a HH hard drive
inside; if the XD88 had HH drives the guts could probably just be squeezed
into a case that size.
The fact that it has a local floppy drive and RS232 ports suggests to me that
it's more than a mere X term anyway (but then Tek did do some pretty
complicated terminals back in the day) - plus my XD88 is circa 1988 and very
soon after that slimline X terminals existed in abundance, so I'm not sure
what this particular critter would have to offer if it's just a big X term
with local floppy storage.
Shame it's so far away or I think I'd be putting in my first ever EBay bid :-)
I'd love to see an inside pic of it.
cheers
Jules
18 Feb
18 Feb
9:30 a.m.
Jules Richardson wrote:
Richard wrote:
Hmm, I don't seem to have anything helpful, sadly. One of my XD88-related
scans mentions "4300 and 4200 series workstations and netstations", but all
that implies is that the 4225 was earlier. Reading between the lines, it seems
that the 4225 runs on something other than an m88k.
Some Google results seem to imply that the 4225 is "just a graphical
terminal", and not even a full-fledged X terminal at that.
I don't think there's mention of a keyboard in that auction is there? That
might be problematic - although the socket's the same as the XD88 family one
(and, I think, some of Tek's earlier terminals) so it may be that there was
some commonality across models.
All this makes me realise just how much Tek knowledge seems to be a lost - I
mean, the earlier Tek terminals seem to be pretty well understood, but then
most of the hardware, software and docs from the later years has just vanished.
cheers
J.
See ebay item # 360132413754
That listing just includes the base unit, but thankfully has closeup
pictures of the connectors on the back.
It looks like it takes AUI ethernet or RS-232 and outputs RGB video.
Anyone familiar with these puppies? I've not seen one before.
Heck, that's interesting. I'll dig in my notes in a bit in case they
shed any light
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