newman@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (Bill Newman) (04/04/89)
Our lab group has apparently been offered some old (?) terminals
that I can't find
in the HP catalog; I haven't found a Tektronix catalog yet. ("How can
you tell a theoretical physical chemist from an experimental physical
chemist?":-) The terminals are in another state, so we can't
just go look to see which ones we want.
I am looking for information like
"The Tek 4010 is an *old* storage-tube graphics terminal; I used it in
a computer lab in 6th grade. The storage-tube screen
means that it can't erase specific elements or scroll; you
just draw on it until you decide to erase it, like an Etch-a-Sketch.
It's so old that maintenance would probably be a major headache,
but at least you wouldn't have to worry about converting programs
to run on it, because the Tek 4010 command set lives on in a thousand
graphics emulators and applilcations programs."
(But we need to decide soon, probably by the end of the week,
so a prompt sentence is more to the point than a late, great
study of these developments in computer hardware.)
Thanks for any help,
Bill Newman
newman@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu