ancient terminals, was: Re: ZX-81 Question

From: Joe <rigdonj_at_cfl.rr.com>
Date: Wed Mar 27 07:52:40 2002

At 05:07 PM 3/26/02 -0800, you wrote:
>
>
>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?


   Yes. Sorry.


     Joe
Received on Wed Mar 27 2002 - 07:52:40 GMT

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