From: reed@reedmedia.net
To: Lars Brinkhoff <lars@nocrew.org>
Cc: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] History talk in Dallas Texas October 10
Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2019 09:21:32 -0500 (CDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.NEB.2.21.1910100919580.28652@t1.m.reedmedia.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7w36g12mas.fsf@junk.nocrew.org>
On Thu, 10 Oct 2019, Lars Brinkhoff wrote:
> Warner Losh wrote:
> > I'm unsure the thing you labeled as DISPLAY-2 is the DISPLAY-2 or the
> > standard Option 340 display. I know people on this list said it was a
> > display-2 (maybe my early slides did as well). Based on pictures in
> > the PDP-7 manuals, I think it was the 340...
>
> The photo does look much like a 340 CRT. Is there anything known about
> how the GRAPHICS-2 (not DISPLAY-2, right?) hardware was built? Is it
> possible a 340 CRT was repurposed for GRAPHICS-2?
https://www.tuhs.org/Archive/Distributions/Research/McIlroy_v0/03-scope.pdf
Jump down to page 20 and more.
Also see some of the PDP-7 assembler code in same directory
about "G-2" and "graphic-2" (keyboard and display) etc.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-10-10 14:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-10-02 22:34 reed
2019-10-09 13:30 ` reed
2019-10-09 16:31 ` Warner Losh
2019-10-10 5:37 ` Lars Brinkhoff
2019-10-10 14:21 ` reed [this message]
2019-10-09 16:47 ` Lars Brinkhoff
2019-10-09 16:54 ` Arthur Krewat
2019-10-10 9:11 ` Lars Brinkhoff
2019-10-09 17:19 Noel Chiappa
2019-10-10 3:31 Doug McIlroy
2019-10-10 3:49 ` Warner Losh
2019-10-10 4:21 ` Warner Losh
2019-10-10 15:20 Noel Chiappa
2019-10-10 19:41 Berny Goodheart
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