19 Nov
2003
19 Nov
'03
8:51 a.m.
one time I saw a Varian mini running a kiosk the screen had a touch
screen on it.
Thanks!
Ed Sharpe Archivist for SMECC
See the Southwest Museum of Engineering, Communications and Computation
online at:
http://www.smecc.org
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jay West" <jwest(a)classiccmp.org>
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts"
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Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2003 11:28 AM
Subject: Re: DG Eclipse MV/7800C on ePay
Someone wrote....
that
> The combination of a *very* odd looking
screen with what
> looks like a low profile mass storage drive makes me guess
> that it might have been a video interactive device, using the
> large laser disks. Yeah, more sure now. The images loaded
> that say danger..laser. Odd that there's no pointing device
> though.
The mass storage looks to be standard DG drives.
There appears to be a large printer... what do you call it... the ones printed photographs and such...where the paper comes
out the front and you
tear it off. I could be wrong, that's what it looks like to me.
Also, the odd looking screen? One is a standard dasher terminal, the other
is just a custom made cover for a crt and keyboard that looks like it
built
it into the rack.
> Hmm. It may well have been some sort of video kiosk. If so, it would
be
a very early
one, and possibly quite historically significant.
I'll lay my money on
'not'.
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