From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: gregg.drwho8@gmail.com (Gregg Levine) Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2012 21:08:28 -0400 Subject: [TUHS] AT&T Blit terminal plus terminal OS In-Reply-To: <20121015002444.GC20292@bitmover.com> References: <201210141048.q9EAmh8k025730@freefriends.org> <201210141054.q9EAsora026032@freefriends.org> <5782C16A7C920E469B74E11B5608B8E723B14598@Kriegler.ntdom.cupdx> <71ce898ee9415e781ed51d35044e6b05.squirrel@webmail.yaccman.com> <20121015002444.GC20292@bitmover.com> Message-ID: On Sun, Oct 14, 2012 at 8:24 PM, Larry McVoy 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" 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 >> >> _______________________________________________ >> >> TUHS mailing list >> >> TUHS at minnie.tuhs.org >> >> https://minnie.tuhs.org/mailman/listinfo/tuhs >> > _______________________________________________ >> > TUHS mailing list >> > TUHS at minnie.tuhs.org >> > https://minnie.tuhs.org/mailman/listinfo/tuhs >> > _______________________________________________ >> > TUHS mailing list >> > TUHS at minnie.tuhs.org >> > https://minnie.tuhs.org/mailman/listinfo/tuhs >> > >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> TUHS mailing list >> TUHS at minnie.tuhs.org >> https://minnie.tuhs.org/mailman/listinfo/tuhs > > -- > --- > Larry McVoy lm at bitmover.com http://www.bitkeeper.com > _______________________________________________ > TUHS mailing list > TUHS at minnie.tuhs.org > https://minnie.tuhs.org/mailman/listinfo/tuhs 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."