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| TerraHertz:
--- Quote from: aqarwaen on June 21, 2020, 07:51:53 pm ---here is new video,i guess its same power plant....... --- End quote --- No, a different and older one. Also very much further down the path of entropic decay. |
| Gyro:
At 39:40 there's what looks to be an HP246x terminal. We used to use the HP2645s in my first job for for editing assembler source code. It had two 3M tape cartridges which allowed you to edit from one cartridge to the other - ASCII text could be streamed from the left hand tape, through the screen buffer for editing and then onto the right hand tape, one way only! If you missed an edit then you had to scroll it right through to the end of the tape and do it again. Cartridge stalls were a common, as were stall retries causing the drives to miss the end of tape optical recognition holes and spool off the end. Requiring cartridge disassembly and re-threading. A real pain in the ass when you were trying to do a quick edit! These were the high tech beasts everything else was paper tape, including bootstrapping the assembler and the linker and finally the object code. The only good thing about those terminals was that the HP service guy showed us how to swap a 4k memory card from one terminal to another, providing the 8k necessary to run the HP bootleg version of Space Invaders. It was pretty common to see two of the four terminals with their screens hinged up at lunch time, with lucky players hogging the other two. The practice eventually got stamped on due to worries about ESD and edge connector wear! |
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