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| Thread ID: 65348 | 2006-01-15 06:48:00 | Old machine curiosity | Greg (193) | PC World Chat |
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| 421193 | 2006-01-16 04:23:00 | .....Whilst in 1976, "Camm's Comic" was describing to their readers how to build a Video Writer...... www.imagef1.net.nz |
Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 421194 | 2006-01-16 04:38:00 | Don Lancaster's "TV typewriter" was September 1973. That used a 2513 character generator and a lot of TTL chips. That PW one would have been similar. I built an ASCII keyboard , and a Philips 14" mono monitor kit towards the end of the 70s. Those were connected to a Z80 'development board". |
Graham L (2) | ||
| 421195 | 2006-01-16 08:09:00 | Are the dark patches on the side facing us readable in the photograph? Is that really "C B M"? I was about to say no, it's unreadable. But I re-scanned at 600dpi and it's revealed as numbers, not letters. 376. Typed on the back of the photo is: IAES and the date. I gues the IAES is just a division or something where he worked. |
Greg (193) | ||
| 421196 | 2006-01-17 00:51:00 | I think I am probably wrong. but it could be an IBM 2260 dumb terminal from around that era. I haven't seen one since about 1978, but it has a certain resemblance. Maybe the number on the side is a red herring and it just a terminal/asset number? There is something on the front, underneath the screen that looks like the way the IBM logo was foxed in those days. Forget all the above - I've just found a photo of a 2260 here (www.columbia.edu) and it is quite different. |
Tony (4941) | ||
| 421197 | 2006-01-17 00:58:00 | Like this? (www.columbia.edu/acis/history/2260.html)? Well done, Tony. P.S. Damn, missed your link to the same picture. But I reckon that's the beast, or a very close relative. :cool: |
Graham L (2) | ||
| 421198 | 2006-01-17 01:14:00 | Here's a better view, with the ventilation slots shown clearly, near the end of this interesting bit of the history of Real computers (www.eecis.udel.edu/~mills/gallery/gallery8.html). They are pretty certainly both 2260s; I wonder which was the earlier model. Either it needed or didn't need the cooling. I have seen terminals which had to have extra holes drilled in their cases ... by us. Without the extra cooling, the smoke couldn't get out. :( |
Graham L (2) | ||
| 421199 | 2006-01-17 01:26:00 | I would say it is a Commodore. Commodore use to make type writers before they went into computers. If you want to magnify the picture select print preview from the file menu and you can magnify the picture by 2oo% the default is 75%. Trevor :) |
Trev (427) | ||
| 421200 | 2006-01-17 01:31:00 | But Trevor, it's not a typewriter, it's a terminal. :) | Graham L (2) | ||
| 421201 | 2006-01-17 03:13:00 | Here's a better view, with the ventilation slots shown clearlyHaving seen that, I think I was right all along. :) | Tony (4941) | ||
| 421202 | 2006-01-17 03:40:00 | But Trevor, it's not a typewriter, it's a terminal. :) I know that !!! Trevor :) |
Trev (427) | ||
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