On Nov 2, 2004, at 8:24 AM, Patrick Finnegan wrote:
> 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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>
Looks like they had some extra VT100 keyboards and asked themselves
"what are we
gonna do with these?"
Is the basic like RSTS BASIC-Plus?
Received on Tue Nov 02 2004 - 10:50:40 GMT
