29 Nov
2006
29 Nov
'06
12:29 p.m.
From: Richard <legalize at xmission.com>
Anyone know anything about these?
Google for AT&T 5620 and/or AT&T BLIT. The 730 is a descendant.
Apparently they could be used as X terminals and they
are essentially
diskless workstations with a 68000 inside.
They can be regular dumb terminals or "layers" terminals, which is a really
rather interesting, pre-XTerminal remote windowing system worked on by,
among other luminaries, Rob Pike. As I recall, they came out with an X
cartridge for the 730 since layers never caught on. I only saw NCR rebadged
X Terminals during my time at AT&T, so I assume the X cartridge didn't catch
on either, even internally.
Any AT&T 3B2 owners out there have one of these in
a working state?
Don't think many of them ever made it out of AT&T...at least I've never seen
one in the wild.