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>From JSol@RUTGERS Fri Oct 23 22:49:02 1981
WorkS Digest          Friday, 24 Oct 1981        Volume 1 : Issue 22

Today's Topics:	     BBN BitGraph Terminal
	The Alto Users Handbook - Cleared For Print By Xerox
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Date: 23 Oct 1981 (Friday) 1521-EDT
From: DREIFU at WHARTON-10 (Henry Dreifus)
Subject: Interesting 68K workstation (?)
cc:   MORGAN (Howard Morgan)

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Date: 22 October 1981 18:56-EDT
From: Bern Niamir <BERN at MIT-MC>
Subject: Favorite terminals
To: decvax!duke!unc!smb at UCB-C70
cc: INFO-TERMS at MIT-MC, BERN at MIT-MC

BBN has recently sold us a terminal called the BitGraph Terminal.

1024 * 768 bit mapped screen, 15" monochrome monitor, 40 Hz.
interlaced.

68000 micro (7 MHz.)  with 128 Kbyte of RAM, 32 KByte of ROM, and 64
bytes of EAROM, 4 rs232 ports up to 19.2 Kbps, one 20 ma current loop
interface, and EIA rs-422 sync. HDLC serial link up to 200 Kbps.

All on one board.  Expansion bus (Motorola Versabus) for additional
memory and IO.  Maximum (in cabinet I believe) memory: 2048 Kbytes.
Speaker and programmable sound generator.

VT-100 keyboard.

Software in ROM: emulates VT52 and teleray (?), future software:  HP
and TEKTRONIX 4010 graphics terminal emulation.  For hackers: write
your own software.  Code and fonts downloadable.

Price:  $4500 single quant.

	Bern



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Date: 23 Oct 1981 1607-PDT
From: Richard Furuta <FURUTA at WASHINGTON>
Subject: The Alto User's Handbook
To: editor-people at SU-SCORE
cc: jeff at WASHINGTON, furuta at WASHINGTON

Some of you may be interested to know that that old underground
classic "The Alto User's Handbook" has been cleared for
release at Xerox and is available from Sara Dake at
Xerox-PARC.  This handbook includes writeups on
Bravo, Markup and Draw.  

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