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I used to connect terminals to this kind of benchtop data system: https://digital.sciencehistory.org/works/4j03d056k https://digital.sciencehistory.org/works/4
by fuzzfactor 6y ago
I used to connect terminals to this kind of benchtop data system:
https://digital.sciencehistory.org/works/4j03d056k https://digital.sciencehistory.org/works/4j03d056k
The first multi-user multi-tasking computer that would fit on a _desk_.
1MHz, 16K of 32bit memory.
Weighed over 50lbs.
It was designed to be compatible with the VT-100 since there was a mode where the system used special escape codes from the remote terminal to substitute for instrument function keys on the local console keyboard. Manually or by script once smart terminals came out.
To save memory each user could run multiple instances of the same basic program plus more than one basic program at a time.
His one chromatograph is mainly not pictured, it is to the left of the data system and weighed about 80lbs.