[TUHS] AT&T Blit terminal plus terminal OS

arnold at skeeve.com arnold at skeeve.com
Sun Oct 14 20:54:50 AEST 2012


OK: Here is where I got stuff from:

	http://www.brouhaha.com/~eric/retrocomputing/att/5620/

Enjoy,

Arnold
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arnold at skeeve.com wrote:

> The code for the 630 (a followon to the blit) was GPL2'ed at some point
> and I have it, although I don't remember where I got it.  I will try to
> send it to Warren for addition to the archives.
>
> I used a 5620 for a while, hooked up to a BSD 4.1 Vax. The vax was overloaded
> so things were slow, but it was a relatively pleasant environment. The keyboard
> was really nice, and there are still people who pine for the 3-button round
> Depraz (sp?) mouse... :-)
>
> I wonder if you couldn't find some of these still on eBay or something.
>
> Arnold
> ---------------
> Wilko Bulte <wkb at xs4all.nl> wrote:
>
> > We had a couple of those at work (Philips Information Systems) in the late 80s. They have long been scrapped I'd imagine.. ␦
> >
> > Wilko
> >
> > On 14 okt. 2012, at 11:58, Wesley Parish <wes.parish at paradise.net.nz> wrote:
> >
> > > I had a look at OSNews.com and found a story about a nifty little terminal and its OS called Blit.
> > > 
> > > http://www.osnews.com/story/26315/Blit_a_multitasking_windowed_UNIX_GUI_from_1982
> > > 
> > > I suspect getting hold of it would be like getting blood from a stone, much like getting the Research Unix source trees ... but still it would be interesting to look at if at all possible.
> > > 
> > > Wesley Parish
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