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Online SquarewaveTopic starter

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Microvitec computer
« on: September 13, 2024, 08:08:09 pm »
I wonder if anyone knows anything more about these than I do? All I know is these are the computers on the desks of an old printing press, controls supplied by Harland Simon in the 1980s, which was a part of Rockwell Automation. I wonder if any of these could have any purpose today? If not, I'll pull the EPROMS like I'm doing to the rest of the control system!

 

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Re: Microvitec computer
« Reply #1 on: September 18, 2024, 09:37:44 am »
I don't know if this means anything to anyone, but I'm told these terminals replaced the VT100s many years ago and is the terminal which would run X windows.
 

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Re: Microvitec computer
« Reply #2 on: September 18, 2024, 11:36:43 am »
The only context in which I know the Microvitec name is that they made very well respected CRT monitors back in the day. The "cub" was the gold standard display if you had a BBC micro.

Didn't know they made anything else, sorry.

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Re: Microvitec computer
« Reply #3 on: September 18, 2024, 05:41:50 pm »
Yes I remember those from school, the CUB monitors and the BBC computer.
 


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