Intro msg: Teraks, emulators, reviving cassette data

From: Glenn Roberts <groberts_at_mitre.org>
Date: Mon Nov 24 17:17:40 1997

At 10:31 AM 11/24/97 -0600, John wrote:
>Why, I thought I'd get a few replies about my Terak computer
>collection...Anyone out there have any experience with these?

very cool machine for its time. now seemingly very collectible (i don't
think they sold too many of them). i had one on my desk for a few years in
the 1981-82 timeframe. built like a tank. ran UCSD pascal (full source
code of course). memory mapped video could be mapped into user program
space so that you could do stuff like watch the bits in your various
storage locations in real time while your program ran. mine had monochrome
video but I seem to recall they had a color model? I think these were
quite pricey a the time (like $10K or something?)

sadly I mostly just used this as a terminal to connect to our DEC (TOPS-10)
minicomputer! (although I did write some simple fortran programs on the
RT11 side).

I know there's a web site on the Net called "Terak Museum" but it's not
responding at the moment...

- glenn
Received on Mon Nov 24 1997 - 17:17:40 GMT