CDC Terminal (was Commodore PET)

[M H Stein]

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From: 	Richard[SMTP:legalize at xmission.com]
Sent: 	Friday, November 09, 2007 12:33 PM
To: 	M H Stein
Subject: 	Re: Commodore PET 


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In article <01C822C6.8F421200 at MSE_D03>,
    M H Stein <dm561 at torfree.net>  writes:

> Just one of many things I dumpstered before I saw the light; the North
> Star and CDC terminal I tossed because I only wanted the desks, the 

What "CDC terminal"?
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Reply:

Well, "terminal" might not have been accurate; it might have been a console
or even something else altogether

But it so happens I still have the 'desk' and some of its innards; the
model numbers are:

Control Data Corporation
QSE 1253 Display Controller
QSE 1255 Display Equipment

Maybe someone on the list knows more.

I may be confusing it with an MDS Data entry station which I scrapped
for the same reason (I needed a lot of small desks to put computers 
and terminals on), but I believe it was the CDC unit that had the 3-row rack
of cards, mostly populated with house-numbered 10-pin TO-5 ICs and
an acoustic delay line for memory, and it was the MDS unit that had
the larger boards and the small core memory plane that are all still lying 
around somewhere in the Chaos Basement.

mike