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List-Id: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list Archived-At: List-Archive: List-Help: List-Owner: List-Post: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: From: John Foust via TUHS Reply-To: John Foust 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.=C2 I had never heard of it before.=20 I have a dozen or so Teraks (a PDP-11/03 based system) as well as=20 many floppies and other inherited items and notebooks from one=20 of the Terak founders. This may seem like a lot but there's another=20 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. =20 There was a Mini-Unix for the Terak described here in May 1979 but=20 I don't think I have a copy. See page 14... =20 https://conservancy.umn.edu/bitstream/handle/11299/159028/UCC_Special%20_Is= sue_May_1979.pdf?sequence=3D1&isAllowed=3Dy Terak floppies are described here: =20 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=20 bitmapped display, short of writing your own routines. Pinning "first" on computers is always a tricky process. - John