8 Nov
2007
8 Nov
'07
5:30 p.m.
Is anyone on the list familiar with a Visual Technologies Xbase12
Xterminal? I have two base units but no documentation or software for them.
John
8 Nov
8 Nov
6:18 p.m.
In article <4733B847.1050309 at guntersville.net>,
"John C. Ellingboe" <john at guntersville.net> writes:
Is anyone on the list familiar with a Visual
Technologies Xbase12
Xterminal? I have two base units but no documentation or software for them.
Wow, that must be pretty late in their product line. I have a Visual
Technologies *serial* graphics terminal, but I didn't know they made X
terminals. Unless someone here has something to help you out, I think
you might be best off trying to track down someone who worked at the
company. Even NCD X terminals (and they were a popular manufacturer
of X terminals) are hard to get software for. This is one of those
things where just having the hardware isn't good enough; you often
need a network environment and appropriate host software in order to
boot them up.
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6:44 p.m.
Is anyone on the list familiar with a Visual
Technologies Xbase12
Xterminal? I have two base units but no documentation or software for them.
I found the following squib in the Google cache for Computer Business
Review:
HIGHER RESOLUTION VISUAL X-TERMINALS
10th October 1990
From Issue Number: 1529
Visual Technology Inc is following up its new $1,000 X-terminal
offering with a line of unbundled colour stations, persuing a
strategy similar to the one charted recently by rival Human Design
Systems. The new products are compatible with most AT-style keyboards
and mice and use the 34020 chip from Texas Instruments. The entry-
level Xbase/10 uses a 16MHz 68020 and 32MHz 34020, handling
resolutions of 1,024 by 768. The Xbase/11 supports a "megapixel"
display, typically 1,152 by 900 resolution. The Xbase/12 can display
resolutions of 1,280 by 1,024. Both the 11 and 12 use a 20MHz 68020
and 40MHz 34020. All three have 2Mb standard memory, expandable to
14Mb. They are compliant with SECwindows, Motif, Open Look and XView.
Availability is November. The Xbases alone range from $2,500 to
$3,500: fully loaded they go from $3,500 to $6,055. pl 72
It sounds pretty spiffy.
Cheers,
Chuck
7 p.m.
In article <47335918.10189.C6D8BA5 at cclist.sydex.com>,
"Chuck Guzis" <cclist at sydex.com> writes:
HIGHER RESOLUTION VISUAL X-TERMINALS
10th October 1990
Yeah, 1990 would be about the right time for X terminals.
Systems. The new products are compatible with most
AT-style keyboards
and mice and use the 34020 chip from Texas Instruments.
Nice. I did like the 340x0 chip series!
They are compliant with SECwindows, Motif, Open Look
and XView.
SECwindows? I think DECwindows is what was intended.
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7:19 p.m.
Chuck Guzis wrote:
I didn't run across that one Chuck, thanks. They do seem to be rather
spiffy and use ps2 mouse and keyboard from PCs and will probably drive
most of the vga multisync monitors. As Richard mentioned I will need
their software and I do have the network to hook them to. They both
come up in their setup menu and then want to go out on the net for software.
Is anyone on
the list familiar with a Visual Technologies Xbase12
Xterminal? I have two base units but no documentation or software for them.
I found the following squib in the Google cache for Computer Business
Review:
HIGHER RESOLUTION VISUAL X-TERMINALS
10th October 1990
From Issue Number: 1529
Visual Technology Inc is following up its new $1,000 X-terminal
offering with a line of unbundled colour stations, persuing a
strategy similar to the one charted recently by rival Human Design
Systems. The new products are compatible with most AT-style keyboards
and mice and use the 34020 chip from Texas Instruments. The entry-
level Xbase/10 uses a 16MHz 68020 and 32MHz 34020, handling
resolutions of 1,024 by 768. The Xbase/11 supports a "megapixel"
display, typically 1,152 by 900 resolution. The Xbase/12 can display
resolutions of 1,280 by 1,024. Both the 11 and 12 use a 20MHz 68020
and 40MHz 34020. All three have 2Mb standard memory, expandable to
14Mb. They are compliant with SECwindows, Motif, Open Look and XView.
Availability is November. The Xbases alone range from $2,500 to
$3,500: fully loaded they go from $3,500 to $6,055. pl 72
It sounds pretty spiffy.
Cheers,
Chuck
7:52 p.m.
In article <4733D1B2.4090405 at guntersville.net>,
"John C. Ellingboe" <john at guntersville.net> writes:
I didn't run across that one Chuck, thanks. They
do seem to be rather
spiffy and use ps2 mouse and keyboard from PCs and will probably drive
most of the vga multisync monitors. As Richard mentioned I will need
their software and I do have the network to hook them to. They both
come up in their setup menu and then want to go out on the net for software.
Try posting to the newsgroups comp.windows.x and comp.terminals and
see if anyone else has a unit in working condition. They probably
work like NCD units in that they want to use bootp to get the server
downloaded to the terminal. From there you'll have to figure out how
they configure things like fonts, the color database, and the like.
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9 Nov
9 Nov
9:02 a.m.
Richard wrote:
In article <4733D1B2.4090405 at
guntersville.net>,
"John C. Ellingboe" <john at guntersville.net> writes:
Good idea. I hadn't tried other groups yet since I figured this bunch
might come up with something pretty quick like.
I didn't run across that one Chuck, thanks.
They do seem to be rather
spiffy and use ps2 mouse and keyboard from PCs and will probably drive
most of the vga multisync monitors. As Richard mentioned I will need
their software and I do have the network to hook them to. They both
come up in their setup menu and then want to go out on the net for software.
Try posting to the newsgroups comp.windows.x and comp.terminals and
see if anyone else has a unit in working condition. They probably
work like NCD units in that they want to use bootp to get the server
downloaded to the terminal. From there you'll have to figure out how
they configure things like fonts, the color database, and the like.
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