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From: John Foust via TUHS <tuhs@tuhs.org>
To: tuhs@tuhs.org
Cc: Joseph Holsten <joseph@josephholsten.com>
Subject: [TUHS] Re: Earliest UNIX Workstations?
Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2023 10:35:30 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <167475095589.2485728.1463406237636642205@minnie.tuhs.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAD2gp_QtUPmd78yAixvKK1wzPX67HKZXzU5cJnVUbcWtMounGQ@mail.g mail.com>

At 01:20 AM 1/26/2023, John Cowan wrote:
>WP says the Terak 8510/a was the first graphical workstation; it came out in 1976-77 and ran the UCSD p-System.  I had never heard of it before. 

I have a dozen or so Teraks (a PDP-11/03 based system) as well as 
many floppies and other inherited items and notebooks from one 
of the Terak founders.  This may seem like a lot but there's another 
guy who might still have a larger collection.

Mini-Unix is described here:

http://www.tavi.co.uk/unixhistory/mini-unix.html

Sixth edition, no MMU.  The Bell memo there is dated January 1977.  

There was a Mini-Unix for the Terak described here in May 1979 but 
I don't think I have a copy.  See page 14...  

https://conservancy.umn.edu/bitstream/handle/11299/159028/UCC_Special%20_Issue_May_1979.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y

Terak floppies are described here:  

http://www.60bits.net/msu/mycomp/terak/termedia.htm

A memo there says they got their copy in April 1980.

There's no indication that this Mini-Unix can *use* the Terak's mono 
bitmapped display, short of writing your own routines.  Pinning "first"
on computers is always a tricky process.

- John


  parent reply	other threads:[~2023-01-26 16:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 64+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-01-26  0:31 [TUHS] " Joseph Holsten
2023-01-26  0:51 ` [TUHS] " segaloco via TUHS
2023-01-26  1:06   ` Luther Johnson
2023-01-26  1:15     ` Jon Steinhart
2023-01-26  1:01 ` Larry Stewart
2023-01-26 13:25   ` Marc Donner
2023-01-26 13:58     ` arnold
2023-01-31  2:03   ` Mary Ann Horton
2023-01-31 17:43     ` Marc Donner
2023-01-26  1:12 ` Tom Lyon
2023-01-26  1:47 ` Chris Hanson
2023-01-26  7:20   ` John Cowan
2023-01-26  7:33     ` Dave Horsfall
     [not found]     ` <CAD2gp_QtUPmd78yAixvKK1wzPX67HKZXzU5cJnVUbcWtMounGQ@mail.g mail.com>
2023-01-26 16:35       ` John Foust via TUHS [this message]
2023-01-26 17:58     ` Jon Forrest
2023-01-26 18:04     ` Jon Steinhart
2023-01-26 21:29       ` [TUHS] Collecting notes for future “historians” was: " Joseph Holsten
2023-01-26 21:38         ` [TUHS] " Jon Steinhart
2023-01-26 22:41           ` Joseph Holsten
2023-01-27  0:34             ` segaloco via TUHS
2023-01-27  0:36             ` G. Branden Robinson
2023-01-27  0:53               ` segaloco via TUHS
2023-01-27  1:28                 ` David Arnold
2023-01-27  1:35                   ` Warner Losh
2023-01-26  9:52 ` [TUHS] " emanuel stiebler
2023-01-26  9:58   ` Rob Pike
2023-01-26 10:09   ` Jaap Akkerhuis via TUHS
2023-01-26 15:14 ` Clem Cole
2023-01-26 13:15 Paul Ruizendaal via TUHS
2023-01-26 15:58 [TUHS] " Paul Ruizendaal
2023-01-26 16:04 ` [TUHS] " Larry McVoy
2023-01-26 16:37   ` emanuel stiebler
2023-01-26 16:51     ` segaloco via TUHS
2023-01-26 16:29 ` Clem Cole
2023-01-26 22:17   ` Paul Ruizendaal
2023-01-26 22:45     ` Bakul Shah
2023-01-27  0:19       ` Paul Ruizendaal
2023-01-27 17:16         ` Paul Ruizendaal via TUHS
2023-01-27 17:36           ` Warner Losh
2023-01-27 17:37             ` Warner Losh
2023-01-27 17:45               ` Rich Salz
2023-01-27 17:54                 ` Warner Losh
2023-01-28  9:14                   ` Lars Brinkhoff
2023-01-28 11:05                     ` Paul Ruizendaal
2023-01-28 15:38                       ` Warner Losh
2023-01-28 18:50                       ` Lars Brinkhoff
2023-01-29  6:48                     ` Lars Brinkhoff
2023-01-29 20:39                       ` Paul Ruizendaal
2023-01-27 17:43           ` josh
2023-01-26 16:51 ` Warner Losh
2023-01-26 18:15   ` Lars Brinkhoff
2023-01-26 19:39     ` Bakul Shah
2023-01-27 10:59     ` Lars Brinkhoff
2023-01-26 18:14 ` Jon Steinhart
2023-01-26 20:44 ` Rob Pike
2023-01-29 23:20 Paul Ruizendaal via TUHS
2023-01-30  0:25 ` Jonathan Gray
2023-01-30  5:23 ` Jonathan Gray
2023-01-30  8:45   ` Paul Ruizendaal
2023-01-30  9:22   ` Jonathan Gray
2023-01-31 11:35   ` Paul Ruizendaal
2023-01-31 23:29   ` Chris Hanson
2023-01-30 13:00 ` Lars Brinkhoff
2023-02-06  7:01 ` Jonathan Gray
2023-02-06  8:39   ` Jonathan Gray

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