On 9/4/2023 3:31 AM, Raymond Wiker via cctalk wrote:
On 2 Sep 2023, at 15:07, Bill Gunshannon via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org>
wrote:
On 9/1/2023 11:45 AM, dwight via cctalk wrote:
My first computer was a Poly-88. I had no monitor and no keyboard.
I read and understood the instructions about finding a TV that used a
transformer power supply. Many newer TV's of that day were not using a
transformer for the main supply. I went to several secondhand stores and found
one that would work.
The keyboard was from a surplus Singer data entry machine ( I thought they only
made sewing machines ).
Believe it or not, at one time they even made Flight Simulators. Early 70's I
wanted
to work at their Binghamton, NY facility but like IBM in Endicott I couldn't
even get my
foot in the door.
bill
The Singer Link F-16 simulator used Norsk Data superminis (initially ND50, but
later ND500). This is not really relevant to S-100 and video monitors, but I
like to mention Norsk Data whenever the opportunity arises.
Our Singer Link facility was gone by the time the F-16 came around.
Think F-4 and maybe even
F-104 when I was trying to get a job. Not sure if they did helicopters,
too but it would have been
UH-1, Cobra and Chinook.
bill
