one time I saw a Varian mini running a kiosk the screen had a touch
screen on it.
Thanks!
Ed Sharpe Archivist for SMECC
See the Southwest Museum of Engineering, Communications and Computation
online at:
http://www.smecc.org
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From: "Jay West" <jwest_at_classiccmp.org>
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts"
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Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2003 11:28 AM
Subject: Re: DG Eclipse MV/7800C on ePay
> Someone wrote....
> > > The combination of a *very* odd looking screen with what
> > > looks like a low profile mass storage drive makes me guess
> > > that it might have been a video interactive device, using the
> > > large laser disks. Yeah, more sure now. The images loaded
> > > that say danger..laser. Odd that there's no pointing device
> > > though.
> The mass storage looks to be standard DG drives.
> There appears to be a large printer... what do you call it... the ones
that
> printed photographs and such...where the paper comes out the front and you
> tear it off. I could be wrong, that's what it looks like to me.
>
> Also, the odd looking screen? One is a standard dasher terminal, the other
> is just a custom made cover for a crt and keyboard that looks like it
built
> it into the rack.
>
> > Hmm. It may well have been some sort of video kiosk. If so, it would
be
> > a very early one, and possibly quite historically significant.
> I'll lay my money on 'not'.
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