atex system in Houston
Wayne S
wayne.sudol at hotmail.com
Wed Mar 13 11:56:20 CDT 2019
Atex, now Newscycle, also had a Classified Advertising system out at that time. I remember reading a article somewhere saying that Atex was going to use the J11 for that system.
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> On Mar 13, 2019, at 06:41, Toby Thain via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
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>> On 2019-03-13 9:31 AM, Paul Koning via cctalk wrote:
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>>> On Mar 12, 2019, at 10:10 PM, Fritz Mueller via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
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>>> Hmmm, are these the atex racks seen lurking in the background of that recent storage space trawl down near Houston?
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>>> https://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-DEC-PDP-11-34-Minicomputer-With-Kennedy-Tape-Drive-J11-CPU-2-Terminals/123688125244
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>> Interesting. Atex is, or was at one time anyway, a manufacturer of typesetting systems for newspapers. DEC was also in that business with Typeset-11 (TMS-11) but Atex was more successful, certainly for smaller newspapers because it used less expensive PDP11 models.
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> Funny, I always associated it with big papers (I think the NYT used it?)
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>> The "multi-processor bus" thing is curious. And I wonder what the terminals are like. If they are typesetting terminals, I think they support some sort of WYSIWYG editing setup -- that too was a competitive advantage vs. the "mark-up" approach (sort of like Runoff on steroids) that Typeset-11 offered. Looking at the keyboards would give a clue.
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> Pretty sure Atex was pre-wysiwyg. This article may provide some context
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> https://www.nytimes.com/1991/03/17/business/can-atex-keep-its-proprietary-place-in-the-newsroom.html
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> https://books.google.ca/books?id=IAGotP-IDocC&lpg=PA1827&ots=jEwR7s7dWM&dq=atex%20customers%201970s&pg=PA1827#v=onepage&q=atex%20customers%201970s&f=false
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> --Toby
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>> The "11-34 minicomputer... J-11 CPU" description is a bit strange. Possibly a dual CPU setup with one of each? But that seems strange because those two are from different generations, and interfacing them together would be tricky and not all that useful.
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>> paul
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