Gerhard Maybe I've discovered a new medical condition "retrospective colour blindness".
Incidentally, the 2260 was "start-stop". Chris Mason ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gerhard Postpischil" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, 01 September, 2006 2:17 PM Subject: Re: >27x132? > Chris Mason wrote: > > Perhaps my memory is failing me in my dotage so I tried Googling. I found > > many references to the 2260 being monochrome but no author had the wit to > > mention what the "chrome" might be. > > At ADR we got four 2260s circa 1968, and I definitely remember those as > having green letters [a colleague and I wrote a Battleship game, and as > a result of our demonstrated expertise (!) with the hardware won a CIA > contract to convert a text processing and search program from 709x > assembler) . I do remember visiting PRC, and noting their Sanders > terminals with blue phosphors. I also remember Hazeltines being orange, > but believe those were asynchronous, rather than 327x. > > Gerhard Postpischil > Bradford, VT ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
