Tektronix 6132 workstations - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

7 Jan 1998

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  <I've
got a line on a Tektronix 6132 workstations, and I'm wondering what 
<exactly it is.  According to the current owner it runs Berkeley UNIX ver 
<4.2 with some 4.3 extensions.  Apparently it's been sitting in a closet 
<unused for the last 8 years, so who knows if it's working.  He also 
<referred to it as a UTek workstation.
<
<I didn't even know Tek made any computers, and web searches bring up zilc 

Look inside it may be a DEC PDP-11 series machine in differnt garb. 

Allison 
Ack, don't get my hopes up!  Sounds like I'll have to arrange to pick this 
beast up sooner than expected :^) 
Um.  I'm not familiar with the Tek 6000 series at all, although the 
description "Workstation" makes me suspect that it's not a PDP.  (That 
is purely a guess - I shall be happy to be proven wrong)

In the late 1970s and early '80s Tek made the 4050 series.  These were 
almost workstations - personal machines built around a vector storage 
CRT.

The 4051 (earliest) seems to have used a 6800 micro as its CPU.  This 
was replaced in the 4052 and 4054 by a bitslice machine which appeared 
to be a 25 MHz 6800-alike with some extra instructions.  Fun machines.

I have a 4052, BTW.  Recent web searches, researching a talk I was 
giving on these machines, did indeed bring up practically nothing - all 
I discovered was that the Dutch computer museum also has a 4052, Hans 
Pufal's list mentions them, and that a company I had once met in a quite 
different context started life making software for these machines.  
Otherwise, no results from any search engine I tried.  (The Tektronix 
site has narry a mention)

So, when you do get hold of this, please tell us all about it.

Philip.