>I went to a scrap place yesterday and found a couple of interesting items.
>One is a 16K core memory board for a Data General Nova. Huge sucker! It's
>marked "DATA GENERAL CORP DGC NOVA 800 16K MEMORY STACK copyright 1973".
>Anyone need this or should I just hang it on the wall to admire?
Someone with a Nova could want it :-)
> I also found several odd looking boxs that are labled as HDS ViewStation.
>they're made by a company called Human Designed Systems. They're about 2"
>tall and 12" square. They have connectors for all the following; thick and
>thin ethernet, twisted pair, sun keyboard, standard PC keyboard, RJ serial
>port, DB-25 serial, DB-25 parallel, PS-2 mouse and standard VGA video.
>Does anyone know what these are
Very versatile terminals. Plug in a monitor, plug in a keyboard, you have
a terminal over the DB25 or RJ serial connector. Plug in the Ethernet, you
have TCP/IP and LAT connectivity. I believe that certain models were also
X-terminals (though I never used any as such.)
> or why they have so many ports?
So you can hook up whichever keyboard, printer, and computer however
you find most convenient. :-)
Tim.
Received on Wed Nov 25 1998 - 10:18:25 GMT
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