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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 03-Sep-18 13:37, Al Kossow wrote:<br>
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On 9/3/18 10:29 AM, Timothe Litt wrote:
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<pre wrap="">For most purposes, the GT40 was superseded by devices like the VT105 (VT100 + b/w graphics), VT125, GiGi, & VT240. But
those are all raster scan devices - which can't match the quality of a vector display. And none of them had a lightpen.
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In the vector world, the replacement was the (really expensive) VS-60, made by Sanders.
That competed with Vector General, E&S, and Megatek
There was also the weirdo VSV-11, a low-res raster display that talked VT-11 opcodes.
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Once our CAD group moved off the -10s, the next step was Sun
workstations for schematic capture (VALID).<br>
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I think VLS (the in-house VAX Layout System) used Megatek displays.<br>
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The VS8000 (I acquired one surplus - internally) incorporated
graphics from Evans & Sutherland. It was some sort of joint
venture. Besides the 3D graphics pipeline, it had a marvelous
peripheral - a keyboard length & 2x KB high panel with, IIRC, 8
knobs each slightly smaller than the hockey puck mouse. One used
them for 3-D pan, zoom & rotate. (Yes, it has a mouse, too).
It was really impressive. <br>
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Unfortunately, I had no interest in the graphics capabilities, so I
removed the display hardware to make room for a bunch of disks - it
became a disk server for my LAVC. And, since it uses an 8250, I
could add a processor (or two?) to make it a SMP VAX for one of my
group's projects. And the only SMP VAX that could run in an an
office (cube) environment. (I doubt that was a supported
configuration.)<br>
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Sanders was a -10 customer of mine in the early 80s, but while I
knew about their graphics displays, I wasn't involved with that LOB.<br>
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