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#98434 - 09/06/2002 00:22 What is this??
Dignan
carpal tunnel

Registered: 08/03/2000
Posts: 12341
Loc: Sterling, VA
Please identify!

http://dignan17.dyndns.org/gallery/oldpc

Hehe, sorry, it's a bit before my time!
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#98435 - 09/06/2002 00:31 Re: What is this?? [Re: Dignan]
number6
old hand

Registered: 30/04/2001
Posts: 745
Loc: In The Village or sometimes: A...
Computer it ain't.

dumb terminal it is.

As far as I can tell this is a Altos 'model five' Dumb Terminal.

Haven't seen one of those for 17+ years.

I used to work for a company that imported & sold Altos equipment including these things.

It was a greenscreen/dumb terminal that could emulate a VT220 terminal (as well the Altos emulation which was similar to the VT220 emulation I recall).

This terminal would have been designed to be used on either the Altos 586 or 986 multi-user computers running Xenix (Microsofts 80's attempt to dominate the Unix market).
Altos computers were based on the 8086 processor and were common in the mid to late 1980's.








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#98436 - 09/06/2002 09:19 Re: What is this?? [Re: number6]
Dignan
carpal tunnel

Registered: 08/03/2000
Posts: 12341
Loc: Sterling, VA
Ahh, interesting! I thought it might be useless to me But oh well. Given that it was 25 cents, I didn't think it was too bad

I picked this up at my church's flea market, along with a $12.50 turntable/radio/8 track player! It's so cool
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#98437 - 09/06/2002 10:15 Re: What is this?? [Re: Dignan]
pgrzelak
carpal tunnel

Registered: 15/08/2000
Posts: 4859
Loc: New Jersey, USA
Well, you could always hook it up as a terminal to the empeg, if you didn't like the way hyperterminal works and wanted a dedicated station...
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#98438 - 09/06/2002 11:25 Re: What is this?? [Re: pgrzelak]
justinlarsen
old hand

Registered: 31/12/2001
Posts: 1109
Loc: Petaluma, CA
damn paul thats one heck of an idea
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#98439 - 09/06/2002 18:04 Re: What is this?? [Re: Dignan]
tonyc
carpal tunnel

Registered: 27/06/1999
Posts: 7058
Loc: Pittsburgh, PA
Make sure you encode those 8-tracks at 320 kb/s so you don't lose any of the 8-track format's high fidelity...
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#98440 - 10/06/2002 21:39 Re: What is this?? [Re: Dignan]
eternalsun
Pooh-Bah

Registered: 09/09/1999
Posts: 1721
Loc: San Jose, CA
OH Wow! Those things are sweet! I wish I could show you guys the 300 baud acoustic coupler terminal me and a buddy found dumpster diving when we were teenagers. It just so happened that he had a Bell style phone that acoustically coupled. We figured out how to configure it, and it took an AT command set even! It was pretty sweet...

Calvin

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#98441 - 17/06/2002 16:43 Re: What is this?? [Re: number6]
altman
carpal tunnel

Registered: 19/05/1999
Posts: 3457
Loc: Palo Alto, CA
Woo! I used to hang out on the altger munich X.25-connected chatsystem (along with a lot of the Chaos Computer Club) back in the late 80s... brings back memories...

Hugo

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