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Aucbvax.4635 fa.works utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!works Fri Oct 23 23:23:59 1981 WORKS Digest V1 #22 >From JSol@RUTGERS Fri Oct 23 22:49:02 1981 WorkS Digest Friday, 24 Oct 1981 Volume 1 : Issue 22

Today's Topics: BBN BitGraph Terminal The Alto Users Handbook - Cleared For Print By Xerox ----------------------------------------------------------------------

Date: 23 Oct 1981 (Friday) 1521-EDT From: DREIFU at WHARTON-10 (Henry Dreifus) Subject: Interesting 68K workstation (?) cc: MORGAN (Howard Morgan)

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Date: 22 October 1981 18:56-EDT From: Bern Niamir <BERN MIT-MC AT> Subject: Favorite terminals To: decvax!duke!unc!smb at UCB-C70 cc: INFO-TERMS at MIT-MC, BERN at MIT-MC

BBN has recently sold us a terminal called the BitGraph Terminal.

1024 * 768 bit mapped screen, 15" monochrome monitor, 40 Hz. interlaced.

68000 micro (7 MHz.) with 128 Kbyte of RAM, 32 KByte of ROM, and 64 bytes of EAROM, 4 rs232 ports up to 19.2 Kbps, one 20 ma current loop interface, and EIA rs-422 sync. HDLC serial link up to 200 Kbps.

All on one board. Expansion bus (Motorola Versabus) for additional memory and IO. Maximum (in cabinet I believe) memory: 2048 Kbytes. Speaker and programmable sound generator.

VT-100 keyboard.

Software in ROM: emulates VT52 and teleray (?), future software: HP and TEKTRONIX 4010 graphics terminal emulation. For hackers: write your own software. Code and fonts downloadable.

Price: $4500 single quant.

Bern

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Date: 23 Oct 1981 1607-PDT From: Richard Furuta <FURUTA WASHINGTON AT> Subject: The Alto User's Handbook To: editor-people at SU-SCORE cc: jeff at WASHINGTON, furuta at WASHINGTON

Some of you may be interested to know that that old underground classic "The Alto User's Handbook" has been cleared for release at Xerox and is available from Sara Dake at Xerox-PARC. This handbook includes writeups on Bravo, Markup and Draw.

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