rebooter Posted May 3, 2013 Share Posted May 3, 2013 (edited) Got this off CL a while back. The guy listed it for $200 but nobody else wanted it, so I sent him an e-mail to the effect of, "If you don't sell this, I'll offer $25." My cell phone picture gave it a sort of divine halo where it sits above my desk in my office. Retro geezers will appreciate it when I tell you the keyboard click acoustics on this terminal are fantastic. Sounds just like David's computer in War Games. I've actually never turned it on because it powered on with a key, which is missing. I'm sure I could hotwire it on but the components are looking really old and dusty and I don't have any floppies, so I will let it rest. More info on this model here: http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?st=1&c=799 Edited May 3, 2013 by rebooter Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ClausB Posted May 12, 2013 Share Posted May 12, 2013 Cool! I worked at a computer store that sold Vector Graphics (and Exidys and Ataris). They used some CP/M accounting programs on the Vector Graphic, including a buggy sales tax program in MS BASIC. They asked me to fix it and that's when I learned about inexact decimal values in binary floating point numbers (as opposed to Atari's exact BCD values). I added some rounding and fixed the bug. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rebooter Posted May 12, 2013 Author Share Posted May 12, 2013 Cool! These anecdotes are priceless, unrecorded bits of computing history. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deramp5113 Posted June 2, 2013 Share Posted June 2, 2013 Did you pick up the computer and the "mindless terminal," or is it just the terminal? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rebooter Posted June 2, 2013 Author Share Posted June 2, 2013 Did you pick up the computer and the "mindless terminal," or is it just the terminal? Both...the big boat anchor computer did not come with its ignition key, so I've never tried it, but it does come with the power/video cable to the terminal. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deramp5113 Posted June 2, 2013 Share Posted June 2, 2013 I just bought the same "boat anchor" off eBay. Dirty and old, but it looks like it's all original and in very good shape other than dirt. Going to work on bringing it up soon. Wish I had the terminal that went with it like you found. Sounds like you got a great deal! Mike Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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