Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site nlm-vax.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!bellcore!decvax!wanginst!vaxine!encore!talcott!harvard!seismo!brl-tgr!nlm-mcs!nlm-vax!lef From: lef@nlm-vax.ARPA (Larry Fitzpatrick) Newsgroups: net.works Subject: Re: Is a Limited Budget Full-Screen Bitmap Display Available? Message-ID: <153@nlm-vax.ARPA> Date: Tue, 5-Mar-85 15:58:59 EST Article-I.D.: nlm-vax.153 Posted: Tue Mar 5 15:58:59 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 9-Mar-85 11:07:17 EST References: <466@hoxna.UUCP> Reply-To: lef@<466@hoxna.UUCP>.UUCP (Larry Fitzpatrick) Organization: NLM/LHNCBC, Bethesda, Md. Lines: 23 Summary: In articlekfl@hoxna.UUCP (Kenton Lee) writes: >xxx >Check out the Teletype 5620 DMD. I think it has 1000x800 resolution, fully >addressable. It also offers a multi-window multiplexed UNIX interface. >The new price is somewhere around $4000. ^^^^^^ Don't forget the cost of the software! The driver software for the host is around $5000 (can't remember for sure). You need the development system to do anything with the terminal in bit-map mode (has a WE32000 in it) and this costs $15000 alone! In dumb terminal mode, it does not even have inverse video, it uses XON/XOFF over 4800 baud and still manages trip over incoming chars, ... and is generally unsuitable except for the 66 line by 87 column display. I agree the hardware is a great price, but without the software it's a very expensive (and dumb) adm-3, and for the cost of the hardware and software you could buy a Sun. -fitz lef@nlm-vax