[GreenKeys] SWTPC C-64 Terminal and Vintage Taxan Amber Monitor

[Jon N5MHI]

>From: John Lawson <john at tubetestingpros.com>
>I gots this lovely old SWTPC Data Terminal...
>I'm open to Compelling Stories...
>John KB6SCO
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Not exactly a TTY story, but related by slow bit rate and antiquity....
Haven't seen a C64 terminal for years.
It was my first glass screen terminal.
I originally got just the circuit board from it when I bought my first
computer, a SWTPC 6800, with 8K of memory. No keyboard or case. At the
University of Nebraska, they had a few 300 baud dial-up ports to their IBM
360/370 mainframe that all the student (and administrative) work was done
on. I finally dug up an ASCII keyboard (no case either), although it was
parallel so I had to build up a UART circuit on a protoboard to get it to
send serial. I think the C-64 was missing a few parts but got those
together and found a discarded 19" screen out of an old arcade game (no
case again). Finally got it all running. I think I had the C64 motherboard
in a cardboard box. Probably one of the few terminals, if any, in a dorm.
Sure beat walking in the snow and wind in the winter to the engineering
building. Only line-mode editing on it.
Those were the days (late 70's, early 80's).
-Jon N5MHI
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