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Article #621227Re: Braegen Computer
From: pechter William Pechter
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2018 22:43
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2018 22:43
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In article <87po434...@usenet.ankman.de>, Andreas Kohlbach <a...@spamfence.net> wrote: >On Thu, 15 Mar 2018 21:45:05 -0700 (PDT), Quadibloc wrote: >> >> On Wednesday, March 14, 2018 at 3:23:58 PM UTC-6, Andreas Kohlbach wrote: >> >>> I took a screenshot at <http://www.ankman.de/braegen.jpg>. Anyone knows >>> what this is? >> >> Found this image >> >> http://dotbu.com/PHIL/Images/Doran/Doran_Figure3b.jpg >> >> of a terminal included with a computer by MDL Computers, a company in >New Zealand. It was from this page: >> >> http://www.rutherfordjournal.org/article050106.html >> >> As you can see, the keyboard has the same layout. > >Interesting. But what are the chances this was used in the US? Other than >if Braegen was a big "New Zealandish" company supplying also the rest of >the world. <snip> >Andreas IIRC Braegen also made disk subsystems using Calcomp drives that attached to DEC PDP11's. The had both Unibus drives and Massbus attached drives. The Massbus was patented by DEC so there came the necessary corporate lawsuit. A Google search pulled a bit about a VT100 work-a-like. https://archive.org/stream/computerworld1449unse/computerworld1449unse_djvu.txt and some disk drive subsystems... https://archive.org/stream/computerworld1449unse/computerworld1449unse_djvu.txt Bill
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