donating to the Computer History Museum
After meaning to do so for ages, I'm finally donating one of my AT&T 5620 blit terminals to the Computer History Museum. A nice, bitmapped, windowed, green phosphor, page display (1024x800) terminal using a Western Electric WE32000 processor and up to 1MB of memory from the early 1980s. Code ran split between the server and on the terminal, itself. I was still using it in the early 1990s connected to a BSD/OS box, along with another friend and colleague that also had one.
Alas, I assumed they wouldn't want my original IBM Personal Computer Model 5150 and ended up recycling it during my great purge process, recently. They were interested, after all. Luckily, they might get a friend's, instead. Though, I'm still bummed about not being able to donate mine.
Here's a quick pic of the blit terminal:
Alas, I assumed they wouldn't want my original IBM Personal Computer Model 5150 and ended up recycling it during my great purge process, recently. They were interested, after all. Luckily, they might get a friend's, instead. Though, I'm still bummed about not being able to donate mine.
Here's a quick pic of the blit terminal: