ancient terminals, was: Re: ZX-81 Question

From: Don Maslin <donm_at_cts.com>
Date: Tue Mar 26 19:07:20 2002

On Tue, 26 Mar 2002, Joe wrote:

> At 05:58 PM 3/26/02 +0100, you wrote:
> >On 2002.03.26 12:55 Hans Franke wrote:
> >
> >> This construction reminded me of
> >> 1970 style 'inteligent' terminals where screen buffer was more like a
> >> code of some sort to be executed by the diplay processor which was a
> >> micro code engine itself.
> >And that reminds me of the Tektronix ASCII Terminal I rescued lately.
> >Characters are drawn only once and the analog "memory" display tube
> >keeps the dots fluoresceing. No screen refresh! This is one of the
> >Terminals where you can see that Tektronix is well known for
> >oscilloscopes...
>
> If you think that's strange you should have seen the Tektronix 8051
                                                     Do you mean 4051?

                                                 - don

> computer. It also used a storage tube for a CRT! You had to
> periodicly press an Erase button to clear the screen!!
>
>
> Joe
>
>
Received on Tue Mar 26 2002 - 19:07:20 GMT