On Tuesday 02 November 2004 11:16, Ron Hudson wrote:
> On Nov 2, 2004, at 7:02 AM, Zane H. Healy wrote:
> >> Equipment just saw outside at a surplus dealer:
> >>
> >> 2 Xerox 820's of some type,
> >> 1 DEC Minc-11,
> >> 1 DEC PDP-11/73,
> >> 1 Osborne-1,
> >> 1 DEC Gi-Gi,
> >> 4 Wang MVPs with Terminals and Peripherals.
> >
> > Oh, now that hurts! I hope someone can at least grab the DEC HW!
> > Especially the Gi-Gi, and MINC!
>
> What's a Gi-Gi? I googled but all I got was a bunch of italian
> sites.
A picture (courtesy of google):
http://www.cis.rit.edu/~jerry/Hardware/museum/pics/Gigi.jpg
Basically DEC's version of an Apple ][ / C64, with 8-color graphics (at
NTSC compatible frame rates), that had a built-in copy of BASIC and a
color terminal emulator. Neat little boxes, I've got one laying around
that I ran across the other day.
Pat
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Received on Tue Nov 02 2004 - 10:24:12 GMT
