On Tue, 23 Jan 2001 12:27:18 -0600 Rob Severson writes: > > I/O > > was a Lear > > Siegler ADM-1 CRT terminal ($1,200). > > Wow! I bought this terminal for $10 (a decade+ ago) to use as a > temporary > test device. I had wondered what it cost when new... > > I gave it away. > You ever look inside one of those things? A huge board with little 14 and 16 pin small scale chips. I think the biggest chip on it was a 40 pin UART. I had the service manual on it. They had built their own processor out of all these small scale chips, then executed code to make it a terminal. The stuff people went through before microprocessors!!! Harold FCC Rules Online at http://hallikainen.com/FccRules Lighting control for theatre and television at http://www.dovesystems.com ________________________________________________________________ GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj. -- http://www.piclist.com hint: The list server can filter out subtopics (like ads or off topics) for you. See http://www.piclist.com/#topics