[HECnet] VT-62?

[lee.gleason at comcast.net]

   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).  

   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.

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Lee K. Gleason N5ZMR
Control-G Consultants
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From: "Dave McGuire" <mcguire at neurotica.com>
To: hecnet at Update.UU.SE
Sent: Thursday, October 3, 2013 12:07:06 PM
Subject: Re: [HECnet] VT-62?

On 10/03/2013 11:40 AM, Paul_Koning at Dell.com wrote:
> A VT71 is an LSI-11 based local editing terminal -- the host would
> send the entire document to it, you'd edit it locally (very nice fast
> response editor) and send back the result.

    Oh my I'd very much like to get my hands on one of those.   I'd never
even heard of it.

                      -Dave

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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA