[HECnet] VT-62?

[Cory Smelosky]

On Thu, 3 Oct 2013, Dave McGuire wrote:

On 10/03/2013 01:20 PM, lee.gleason at comcast.net wrote:
  The terminals themselves were just largish monitors and keyboard with
an LSI11 system built in (an 11/03 or 11/2 - wasn't an 11/23, they were
too new).

Yup.   That's why I'm drooling.   I like that idea a lot.

I like the idea, too. I'd put something else on my desk if I had the space.   Or the ethernet cables.


  Even if you had one now, the magic was in the software that was
downloaded from the TMS system, and the server side stuff that ran on
the host 11. Without a TMS11 system to attach to, it would just be a
bulky LSI11 system with no disk. Now, if you added a disk, and upgraded
the processor, it would be the basis for an interesting desktop system -
but it wouldn't provide the real VT71/72 experience.

I'm not too interested in that very-vertical-market-sounding
experience.   I just like the idea of a small PDP-11 inside a rather
iconic terminal that I can download arbitrary code into.   It'd be fun.

It'd be very neat.


                          -Dave



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