11 Aug
2012
11 Aug
'12
12:02 a.m.
Actually I have been learning more about HDLC, X.25,
3270 chitchat,
etc., in order to try and get these Westinghouse airline terminals to
talk.
You will probably need a fair amount of beer, too.
However, as we discussed during your last visit when
we were at the
Hole, I need to focus on graphics and not become exclusively a
terminal museum. Get some twinax/bisync *graphics* terminals my way
and I'll get a lot more interested. However, I just haven't found
them.
The 5080 family of terminals is probably up your alley. But, they seem
to be rare. I used one many years ago, at an open house at EMD. Fun
stuff. And then their is the 7361 FastDraft system - it is an IBM S/1
controlling some sort of third party graphics engine. RCS has one, and
we can not figure the thing out. If you watch a bad Cameron Diaz movie
from a few years back, you can see it on the big screen
(stuffed and
mounted, anyway. No, not Ms. Diaz.).
--
Will
11 Aug
11 Aug
8:56 p.m.
On Sat, Aug 11, 2012 at 12:02 AM, William Donzelli <wdonzelli at gmail.com>wrote:
The 5080 family of terminals is probably up your alley. But, they seem
to be rare.
These were CAD terminals, right? I have the board sets from about half a
dozen of these. There were used with CADAM and were connected to a 4381. We
converted to a different CAD system in 1999 and all the mainframe stuff was
scrapped because of Y2K. I wish I had gotten one complete system, but they
were all sent to the dumpster. Somebody in the grounds crew discovered that
there was a lot of aluminium in the chassis so they chopped them up and
with the intention of selling the aluminium and having a party. Not sure if
the party ever happened, but they had no use for the boards.
There is a 68000 based computer and a 2900 based bit slice processor of
some kind on the boards. There is a floppy interface also. My intention at
the time was to harvest the 2900 parts to build a homebrew processor.
In the long run, a complete system would have been much more interesting.
-chuck
12 Aug
12 Aug
4:02 a.m.
{begin mercilous plug} TNMoC has an IBM 5080 connected to a PC/RT running CAD software on
display most public opening days. Thought I'd mention this tangentially in case the
system was of interest.{end mercilous plug}
Charles Dickman <chd at chdickman.com> wrote:
On Sat, Aug 11, 2012 at 12:02 AM, William Donzelli
<wdonzelli at gmail.com>wrote:
-- Colin
The 5080 family of terminals is probably up your alley. But, they
seem
to be rare.
These were CAD terminals, right? I have the board sets from about half
a
dozen of these. There were used with CADAM and were connected to a
4381. We
converted to a different CAD system in 1999 and all the mainframe stuff
was
scrapped because of Y2K. I wish I had gotten one complete system, but
they
were all sent to the dumpster. Somebody in the grounds crew discovered
that
there was a lot of aluminium in the chassis so they chopped them up and
with the intention of selling the aluminium and having a party. Not
sure if
the party ever happened, but they had no use for the boards.
There is a 68000 based computer and a 2900 based bit slice processor of
some kind on the boards. There is a floppy interface also. My intention
at
the time was to harvest the 2900 parts to build a homebrew processor.
In the long run, a complete system would have been much more
interesting.
-chuck 
4:56 a.m.
I remember the coiffed, pert lady typing on the IBM terminal in the 60's
ads.
But networks, email and database access weren't invented until the late
80's according to the visionaries and pseudo historians..
I guess BBN and Berkeley invented everything we now use daily. Don't
even get me started about IPV6.
Jim D.
Sorry, My Mom passed today and I'm not clear (too Scientology-ie),
Collected? rational, sober? Fuck it.
I just hate people who profess the computing universe was invented with
CERN's WWW in the late 80's
The Swift-Tuttle (not Buttle) shower tonight has been a bit of a bust.
About 10-30 /hr, mostly really small 1-5 degree trails, no really big
"light up the sky, smoke trails"
.
4:58 p.m.
On 08/12/2012 04:56 AM, jimpdavis wrote:
I remember the coiffed, pert lady typing on the IBM
terminal in the 60's
ads.
But networks, email and database access weren't invented until the late
80's according to the visionaries and pseudo historians..
I guess BBN and Berkeley invented everything we now use daily. Don't
even get me started about IPV6.
Right there with you on that. People are clueless. That in itself is
not the problem...there's nothing wrong or dishonorable about not
knowing something. Where it becomes wrong is when they make an
assumption, then righteously proclaim that it's correct, when anyone
with half a brain knows they're dead wrong. This is rampant these days.
Jim D.
Sorry, My Mom passed today and I'm not clear (too Scientology-ie),
Collected? rational, sober? Fuck it.
Oh my. I'm so sorry to hear this. :-( My best wishes to you.
-Dave
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