Jeffrey l Kaneko wrote:
>
> I used them myself for the two years I went to college (the
> school had a PDP-11/70 I think). As for speed, have you
> ever looked inside one of these things?
>
> Late one nite, I had nothing better to do than poke around
> stuff in the computer lab; indide I found one *big* board,
> covered with what I think was TTL. No uP, all random logic,
> *no* processing overhead.
>
Yes and I bought mine(ADM 3A) (new) as a kit. I got that big boards and
a box
of chips that had to be hand soldered on to the board. The CRT and it's
board
were pre assembled. It finaly gave me trouble and I junked it.
Bill K7NOM
> Talk about 'real time' . . . ..
>
> On Thu, 24 May 2001 13:37:20 -0500 Tom Uban <uban_at_ubanproductions.com>
> writes:
> > At the time, they were fairly cheap in comparison to other "more
> > intelligent"
> > terminals, and they were one of the few which could keep up at a
> > full serial
> > line rate without handshaking. I worked at Purdue University's
> > Engineering
> > Computer Network back in the early 80's and we used then for that
> > reason. Most
> > ran at either 9600 or 19200, but we modified a few to run at 38400
> > and they
> > could keep up with that speed as well...
> >
> > --tom
>
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