From: gregg.drwho8@gmail.com (Gregg Levine)
Subject: [TUHS] AT&T Blit terminal plus terminal OS
Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2012 21:08:28 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAC5iaNEjeqC47tphX+XrGWrobVfdi8oQmhCf2UQvtmmeuG9BUQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20121015002444.GC20292@bitmover.com>
On Sun, Oct 14, 2012 at 8:24 PM, Larry McVoy <lm at bitmover.com> wrote:
> My fond memories, if my old brain doesn't fail me, is being a TA at
> the University of Wisconsin. I shared an office with another TA,
> we had one BLIT but I managed to scrounge another one. We had a
> serial line that ran from our building to the building that had
> all the vaxen, just one.
>
> So I bread boarded some 8051's (I think that's them, they were 8 bit
> computers that you could flash). What I noticed was that all the stuff
> we did was 8 bit clean, only used the lower 7. So, 8th bit was the mux.
> On was me, off was my office mate. I programmed the 8051's and convinced
> the lab (run by Paul Beebe, he still around? Wouldn't be surprised if
> he's on the list) to let me stick one in there, the other in our office,
> presto! Two BLITs and two extremely happy TA's.
>
> I *loved* the BLIT, it was pretty much everything I wanted from a terminal,
> it was like the NCD Xterminal only a decade or two sooner. And kind of
> more cool because it worked over a serial line.
>
> --lm
>
> P.S. Pretty cool that I'm responding to the guy who wrote yacc. Thanks
> for that, I've gotten a lot done with lex/yacc over the years. As have
> countless other people. Might be interesting to hear your storie about
> what people have done with yacc - has anyone ever added up how many
> yacc grammers there are out there?
>
> On Sun, Oct 14, 2012 at 04:00:53PM -0700, scj at yaccman.com wrote:
>> This brings back fond memories. Applications running on the main computer
>> downloaded custom code to run on the Blit--this was the biggest
>> challenge--writing an application to run on two machines at once, with two
>> different OS's, different hardware and different endian-ness. When it was
>> working, it was great, but debugging new code could be a real challenge.
>>
>> Steve
>>
>>
>> > Like this: http://www.flickr.com/photos/87479714 at N05/8087576305/
>> >
>> > That one has the Bell Labs USB modification, and works like a charm under
>> > Windows 7! :)
>> >
>> > -Ben
>> >
>> > ________________________________________
>> > From: tuhs-bounces at minnie.tuhs.org [tuhs-bounces at minnie.tuhs.org] on
>> > behalf of Brantley Coile [brantley at coraid.com]
>> > Sent: Sunday, October 14, 2012 11:47 AM
>> > To: Brian Zick
>> > Cc: tuhs at tuhs.org; arnold at skeeve.com
>> > Subject: Re: [TUHS] AT&T Blit terminal plus terminal OS
>> >
>> > Like a lady bug with no spots. I have a 730 in my office.
>> >
>> > iPhone email
>> >
>> > On Oct 14, 2012, at 11:18 AM, "Brian Zick" <artistenator at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> >>> 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... :-)
>> >>
>> >> What does a Blit 3-button round Depraz mouse look like? I've searched,
>> >> but alas I have not found.
>> >>
>> >> Brian Zick
>> >> zickzickzick.com
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Hello!
Great government! I saw one of those and a 3B at the Vintage Computer
Festival last May. The terminal worked fine, the computer kept telling
the two people to go ******** themselves.
-----
Gregg C Levine gregg.drwho8 at gmail.com
"This signature fought the Time Wars, time and again."
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-10-15 1:08 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
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 [this message]
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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