Can't see the video (access denied).. but that looked like an exceptionally nice unit, with the stand to boot! Some day I'd like to have one of those to go with my Tektronix 6800 board bucket.. but shipping will always be an issue. If you decide to put a video up somewhere public please let me know.. love watching vids of these ones in action. -----Original Message----- From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Randy Dawson Sent: Sunday, October 23, 2016 7:15 PM To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts <cctalk at classiccmp.org> Subject: Tek 40xx computer users I bought the Tek 4051 on ebay today; Jason brought it to my house and it works perfectly, with about a half hour of programming instruction my 12 old daughter was plotting a cat face. https://www.facebook.com/Thelma.Franco/videos/10154277153852670/ I would like to get in touch with other users of this first personal computer, and find additional resources. Do you know where I can find an archive of BASIC programs for this? Has anybody built plug in cards in the back, mine came with a realtime clock and a "file manager", I do not know what that one does. I have some Tek scopes with IEE-488, and I will see if I can get the IEEE interface working. There was a DC300 tape in the machine: biorithm craps blackjack artillery tanks weatherwar The belt is broken in the tape, I have ordered some new DC300's and will transplant the tape. Any resources will be welcome! Randy

Start with this http://www.vcfed.org/forum/showthread.php?33684-Tek-4051-BASIC-Simulator Read the thread carefully, forget about the threads title/subject and you will get close to all the information you need On Mon, Oct 24, 2016 at 10:42 AM, Pete Lancashire <pete at petelancashire.com> wrote:

I sent Brad Srebink a email on this, lets see if I can get the simulator and his Tek Logo examples. ________________________________ From: cctalk <cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org> on behalf of Pete Lancashire <pete at petelancashire.com> Sent: Monday, October 24, 2016 10:58 AM To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts Subject: Re: Tek 40xx computer users Start with this http://www.vcfed.org/forum/showthread.php?33684-Tek-4051-BASIC-Simulator Tek 4051 BASIC Simulator - Vintage Computer Forum<http://www.vcfed.org/forum/showthread.php?33684-Tek-4051-BASIC-Sim… www.vcfed.org I'm working on a Tektronix 4051 BASIC and screen simulator that runs on Windows. It's not complete yet, but I can run some of the statements and perform some simple ... Read the thread carefully, forget about the threads title/subject and you will get close to all the information you need On Mon, Oct 24, 2016 at 10:42 AM, Pete Lancashire <pete at petelancashire.com> wrote:

Mike Hass wrote regarding his treasure trove of 4051 stuff: Very cool stuff. Let's see some pictures posted of the Test Fixture front panel. I had heard of the existence of these, which essentially was a lights and switches front panel that allowed exam & deposit of memory, as well as single-stepping of the 6800 in the 4051. One thing I often wondered...would this work on a 4052? Would also love to see pix of the "GAS 6800". Could well be a prototype.... Seeing it, I may be able to confirm if it is. Any of the ROMpacks that you have that haven't already had their firmware dumped out, should be captured if at all possible and place up on BitSavers....hint, hint.

Hah ha, made you say never.... https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bxd4qJinVzkNQVBDazFGdUZBLU0/view heh.... https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0Bxd4qJinVzkNV3c4RElNYVh1VTg ;)

This was for Mike Hass, he was not in the email chain, and I do not have his address. But it' s a general shout out to the other Tek 40xx users out there... Randy ________________________________ From: cctalk <cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org> on behalf of Randy Dawson via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org> Sent: Saturday, January 6, 2018 9:54 PM To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts Subject: Re: Tek 40xx computer users Hi Gary, Well its been a year. Some news from here: Micheal Cranford finished his MAXIPACK and FASTGRAPHICS PACK, and the results are awesome. 50-100% increase in the graphics speed, and he put all the demos and games on the MAXIPACK. I 3D printed the plastic case for the PACKs and they look good. I would like to see if we can work together, to clone the ROMs out of the packs you have, or see if you are willing to sell duplicates you have. I really need a communications PACK, my 4051 did not have the comm port. I have no way to transfer data in and out, I was going to attempt it over GPIB, bit I did not get very far. What is new from your end? I think we are trying to organize a 405x users group, I am talking with a few other guys. Cheers, Randy ________________________________ From: cctalk <cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org> on behalf of Mike Haas <dogaschesswarrior at gmail.com> Sent: Thursday, October 27, 2016 8:10 AM To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts Subject: Re: Tek 40xx computer users Congrats on your new Tek. My 4051 pile came from came indirectly from Gary Spence, who had inhouse involvement with the model. (can't locate his bio at the moment) Here's what I got... somewhere: 4051, 2x 4907 Dual 8" floppys, and the "System Test Fixture" front panel, a box of DC300 tapes "GAS 6800" - a Homebrew 4051 (maybe a prototype 4051 ???) and these paks: RS232 I/O compak dual port memorypack UNIBURN EPROM burner pack VIDEOFRAME digitizer GPIB Enhancement rompack RS232 Printer Interface Parallel Interface Rompack Switch Data Communications Interface 8k Rom pack Addressable Data Tracking backpack IC Analyzer Editor Pack Filemanager Pack Binary Program Loader Pack Signal Processor Pack Service Pack Pack extender board a few empty packs and several wired edges On Sun, Oct 23, 2016 at 10:15 PM, Randy Dawson <rdawson16 at hotmail.com> wrote: Log In or Sign Up to View<https://www.facebook.com/Thelma.Franco/videos/10154277153852670/> www.facebook.com See posts, photos and more on Facebook. Log In or Sign Up to View<https://www.facebook.com/Thelma.Franco/videos/10154277153852670/> Log In or Sign Up to View<https://www.facebook.com/Thelma.Franco/videos/10154277153852670/> www.facebook.com See posts, photos and more on Facebook. www.facebook.com<http://www.facebook.com> [https://www.facebook.com/images/fb_icon_325x325.png]<http://www.facebook… Facebook - Log In or Sign Up<http://www.facebook.com/> www.facebook.com Create an account or log into Facebook. Connect with friends, family and other people you know. Share photos and videos, send messages and get updates. See posts, photos and more on Facebook.

On 07.01.2018 07:01, Randy Dawson via cctalk wrote: There are a number of us over and the vcfed forum, someone just brought his 4052 back to live after countless years. I myself restored my 4052 a couple of months ago, a second one needs powersupply checkout and has an as yet undetermined problem in the analog board. I am in the process of recreating the 4052/4054 diagnostic pack. Give a shout if you need one, less than 7 parties at the moment..... I'd therefore be interested in the source code for the 3D printed cartridge case. This will need updates to accomodate the LED and switches. I myself would be interested in obtaining, or recreating, a suitable long term storage option for the 4052, i.e. floppy or even SD card. Then again, TekBasic is really bloody awful, maybe we should spend time on brining somre proper software top the system..... Jos