From: arnold@skeeve.com (arnold@skeeve.com)
Subject: [TUHS] AT&T Blit terminal plus terminal OS
Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2012 04:54:50 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201210141054.q9EAsora026032@freefriends.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201210141048.q9EAmh8k025730@freefriends.org>
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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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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-10-14 10:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-10-14 9:58 Wesley Parish
2012-10-14 10:32 ` Wilko Bulte
2012-10-14 10:48 ` arnold
2012-10-14 10:54 ` arnold [this message]
2012-10-14 18:16 ` Brian Zick
2012-10-14 18:47 ` Brantley Coile
2012-10-14 20:21 ` Benjamin Huntsman
2012-10-14 23:00 ` scj
2012-10-15 0:24 ` Larry McVoy
2012-10-15 1:08 ` Gregg Levine
2012-10-15 9:10 ` Peter Jeremy
2012-10-14 23:14 ` Brian Zick
2012-10-15 6:53 ` David Evans
2012-10-15 6:46 ` [TUHS] AT&T video : the UNIX system (1982) Pierre DAVID
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