Omrom programmable terminal

[Ben]

Chuck Guzis wrote:
> On 2 Sep 2009 at 16:22, tp wrote:
> 
> Tom, there's a product announcement of the 8030 in the September 1976 
> IEEE Computer magazine.  Says it's 8080 based, with editing features 
> (e.g. protected fields) and two display pages.  The announcement 
> claims a top speed of 9600 bps, however.

This is 1976 ... did they have 9600 modems back then that a human could
afford!



> The "New Products" section for that month is certainly interesting.  
> Intersil announced their Intercept Jr. evaluation kit for the IM6100. 
> American MIcrosystems trotted out their development system for the 
> 6800.  EAI announced a new hybrid computer system.  North Star had a 
> floating-point board for their systems.  Interdata introduced two new 
> minis.

Any guesses what the hardware on the floating point board was?

> But the thing that caught my eye was the HP 548A "logic clip"--a 
> device built into a DIP test clip with an LED for each pin.  It 
> featured self-seeking logic and would display the state of all pins 
> for RTL, TTL, DTL and CMOS logic families.  It sounds very cool--and 
> I have never seen one in the flesh.
> 
> If you're an IEEE CS member, you can pick up a PDF of the "new 
> products" section from the IEEE web site.  Otherwise, I can pass it 
> on to you for browsing.

Text based is fine with me.

> Best regards,
> Chuck
> 

PS. The problem with old catalogs and products for sale, is that
it reminds me I wanted to buy said item at one time.