[TUHS] History talk in Dallas Texas October 10

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Fri Oct 11 00:21:32 AEST 2019


On Thu, 10 Oct 2019, Lars Brinkhoff wrote:

> Warner Losh wrote:
> > I'm unsure the thing you labeled as DISPLAY-2 is the DISPLAY-2 or the
> > standard Option 340 display. I know people on this list said it was a
> > display-2 (maybe my early slides did as well). Based on pictures in
> > the PDP-7 manuals, I think it was the 340...
> 
> The photo does look much like a 340 CRT.  Is there anything known about
> how the GRAPHICS-2 (not DISPLAY-2, right?) hardware was built?  Is it
> possible a 340 CRT was repurposed for GRAPHICS-2?

https://www.tuhs.org/Archive/Distributions/Research/McIlroy_v0/03-scope.pdf
Jump down to page 20 and more.

Also see some of the PDP-7 assembler code in same directory
about "G-2" and "graphic-2" (keyboard and display) etc.


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