more interesting finds!

From: Julian Richardson <JRichardson_at_softwright.co.uk>
Date: Thu Nov 26 06:04:28 1998

missed the start of this thread, but:

>NOTE: X-Window terminals were often crammed full of memory (2 to 16meg
>generally), usually SIMS. This often gets stripped first, even before the
>surplus shop gets it.

they generally (always? think it's actually part of the system design on
some boxes) need a boot ROM to boot from a host system (maybe some sort
of binaries for the terminal held on the host server too?). I gather
that these ROMs were often purchased seperately from the terminal itself
(presumably several giving different configurations for a particular
terminal were on offer) and so you may have a terminal without the ROM,
in which case getting hold of one might be interesting...

cheers

Jules
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