25 Sep
2013
25 Sep
'13
7:42 p.m.
Folks,
Anyone have a manual for one of these? The 512 is online, but I can't
seem to find one for the '1000. Presumably this thing speaks 4010, but
I'd like to know more about all the assorted connectors and such.
Cheers,
De
25 Sep
25 Sep
9:05 p.m.
In article <20130926024209.B1D70DA60BE at yagi.h-net.msu.edu>,
Dennis Boone <drb at msu.edu> writes:
Anyone have a manual for one of these? The 512 is
online, but I can't
seem to find one for the '1000. Presumably this thing speaks 4010, but
I'd like to know more about all the assorted connectors and such.
If you have pictures, that would be great.
I know that retro graphics boards were made for multiple terminals.
It appears that the RG1000 is for ADDS terminals?
<http://books.google.com/books?id=Nb-pSr41croC&lpg=PA38&dq=retrographics&pg=PA38#v=onepage&q=retrographics&f=false>
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2 Oct
2 Oct
12:42 p.m.
If you have pictures, that would be great.
I'll see what I can do.
I know that retro graphics boards were made for
multiple terminals.
It appears that the RG1000 is for ADDS terminals?
<http://books.google.com/books?id=Nb-pSr41croC&lpg=PA38&dq=retrographics&pg=PA38#v=onepage&q=retrographics&f=false>
It's been hard to assemble a coherent picture of the model numbers from
scattered things like Computerworld hits. The RG512 may have been
called something else in some of the supported terminals.
This RG1000 is in a tvi925.
De
3 Oct
3 Oct
2:54 p.m.
In article <20131002194206.E5E8EA58536 at yagi.h-net.msu.edu>,
Dennis Boone <drb at msu.edu> writes:
I got your email with a link to the pictures; I'm going to make a page
on the terminals wiki for this product and upload the pictures. It
was always my intention to create pages for these RetroGraphics
add-ons, but it's been difficult to find information on them
specifically.
g=PA38#v=onepage&q=retrographics&f=false>
If you have
pictures, that would be great.
I'll see what I can do. I know that
retro graphics boards were made for multiple terminals.
> It appears that the RG1000 is for ADDS terminals?
>
<http://books.google.com/books?id=Nb-pSr41croC&lpg=PA38&dq=retrographics&p
It's been hard to assemble a coherent picture of the model numbers from
scattered things like Computerworld hits. The RG512 may have been
called something else in some of the supported terminals.
This RG1000 is in a tvi925.
Yeah, the nearest I can figure it is that they had different products
(original retro-graphics, then "Gen. II" and so-on) and that each of
those products was tailored for specific terminals. So you could get
an RG1000 for ADDS and one for certain TeleVideo terminals and so-on.
I'm not sure if they spun different PCBs for the different terminals
or just used a common form factor on the board that would fit into all
the supported enclosures and just sent you different mounting hardware
to put the board inside the terminal. I know if it were me, I'd be
doing the latter and not the former :).
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3:49 p.m.
I'm not sure if they spun different PCBs for the
different terminals or
just used a common form factor on the board that would fit into all the
supported enclosures and just sent you different mounting hardware to
put the board inside the terminal. I know if it were me, I'd be doing
the latter and not the former :).
Well, for what it's worth, the manual for the ADDS RG-512 shows a board
shape, and says it's a single board. This Gen II RG-1000 in a Televideo
has two boards, neither the same shape. Apples and oranges, I know.
Given the differences in the base terminals, I'd believe they might have
been unable to achieve one board, but I have no evidence either way.
I did see in one of their ads that on base terminals supporting color,
the Gen II could do color support, acting like a Tek 4027. They also
supported pens and digitizers and such as plug-in options. Explains
some of the unused connectors on my set.
De
5 Oct
5 Oct
4:05 p.m.
I added pages for the RG-512 and RG-1000 to the terminals wiki:
<http://terminals.classiccmp.org/wiki/index.php/Category:Digital_Engineering>
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