IBM 6094-010 "Dials" protocol?

[Chris Elmquist]

On Sunday (03/25/2018 at 07:11AM -0700), Mark J. Blair via cctalk wrote:
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> > On Mar 24, 2018, at 22:29, Michael Brutman via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
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> > Picture here: https://i.imgur.com/ClCw070.jpg <https://i.imgur.com/ClCw070.jpg>
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> Neat! I haven't seen one of those since 1987, when I briefly played with a workstation that had one of those in an unguarded computer room in college. It was running some sort of CAD demo in which you could rotate, translate, and scale a wireframe model with the dials. I seem to recall that it was propped up diagonally on some sort of stand, but I don't remember if that was a standard feature vs. something cobbled together locally.
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> Good luck learning how to talk to it. I can think of a number of different applications in which a physical interface like that might be nice.

Maybe there's some relationship to the SGI dial boxes??  I have an SGI
one but don't know anything about the IBM ones.  They were built by
Danaher and Seiko and both SGI and Sun offered those models...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dial_box

http://yehar.com/blog/?p=3471

https://github.com/hanshuebner/sgi-dialbox-usb/blob/master/dialbox.py

Chris
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Chris Elmquist