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That is a Data General 6053, aka Dasher D2, terminal, with a trackball spliced in place of the number pad. The D2 was introduced in 1977, same year as the Apple
by kps 2y ago
That is a Data General 6053, aka Dasher D2, terminal, with a trackball spliced in place of the number pad. The D2 was introduced in 1977, same year as the Apple II.
- nailer 2y agoDG 6503 images: https://terminals-wiki.org/wiki/index.php/Data_General_6053 https://terminals-wiki.org/wiki/index.php/Data_General_6053 DG story is fascinating. Founded in 1968 by ex DEC engineers. Annual sales of 1B in 1984. But then started losing to DEC's own VAX. VAX is it's own ball of worms - the designers of VMS, the OS, ended up at Microsoft designing Windows NT. But a bunch of VAX customers ended up up installing this weird thing they got on tape from a friend instead of VMS, called 'UNIX' which confused DEC - why would you want a VAX without VMS? And now half of everyone that's reading this on a desktop is doing so on either iOS, macOS or Android (UNIX or GNU variants) or Windows (Windows NT successor).
- alnwlsn 2y agoHere's a video of one being restored: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3bjdrKCmiE0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3bjdrKCmiE0 The keyswitches are foam and foil, and the CRT really is a blue/white color.
- xattt 2y agoThank you for nailing this down.
- jdeibele 2y agoObligatory plug for "The Soul of a New Machine", written by Tracy Kidder about Data General and the drive to introduce a new computer a couple of years after this terminal was introduced. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Soul_of_a_New_Machine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Soul_of_a_New_Machine