>>>And _History of Personal Workstations_ seems to classify the HP 9100 (1968)
>>>as a workstation.
>>
>>Oh, did you mean graphical workstation? Then maybe it was the DEC GT40,
>>introduced in 1972.
>
>What about the Tectronics terminals with vector graphics? I remember
>playing basketball on one in 74.
Both the GT40 and HP9100 were vector displays, too :-). (Although
to get "vector graphics" on the 9100 you need the optional X-Y pen
plotter.)
The HP9100 is a very nice "personal compute machine", and the example
I inherited was once used to compute the original space probe "slingshot"
trajectories by Van Allen at the University of Iowa.
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