Aucbvax.4618
fa.info-terms
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Fri Oct 23 07:30:50 1981
Favorite terminals
>From BERN@MIT-MC Fri Oct 23 06:56:36 1981
BBN has recently sold us a terminal called the BitGraph Terminal.

1024 * 768 bit mapped screen, 15" monochrome monitor, 40 Hz. interlaced.

68000 micro (7 MHz.)  with 128 Kbyte of RAM, 32 KByte of ROM, and 64
bytes of EAROM, 4 rs232 ports up to 19.2 Kbps, one 20 ma current
loop interface, and EIA rs-422 sync. HDLC serial link up to 200
Kbps.

All on one board.  Expansion bus (Motorola Versabus) for additional
memory and IO.  Maximum (in cabinet I believe) memory: 2048 Kbytes.
Speaker and programmable sound generator.

VT-100 keyboard.

Software in ROM: emulates VT52 and teleray (?), future software:  HP
and TEKTRONIX 4010 graphics terminal emulation.  For hackers: write
your own software.  Code and fonts downloadable.

Price: ~ $4500 single quant.

       Bern

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