On 8/13/20 5:04 PM, Antonio Carlini via cctalk wrote:
> On 13/08/2020 22:29, Tom Uban via cctalk wrote:
>> Thanks Aaron. The DEC display is quite a bit newer than the old Plato
>> design. I had one of the Plato
>> terminals at one time and am quite familiar with them. I also had a digivue
>>
To: Aaron Woolfson ; paulkon...@comcast.net ; u...@ubanproductions.com ;
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Sent: Thursday, August 13, 2020 1:53 PM
Subject: Re: DEC VRE01 terminal documentation
Here's a photo of one of the restored PLATO terminals (which had the plasma
display)
Does the power supply
Woolfson
To: Aaron Woolfson ; paulkon...@comcast.net ; u...@ubanproductions.com ;
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Sent: Thursday, August 13, 2020 1:55 PM
Subject: Re: DEC VRE01 terminal documentation
I am crossing my fingers that I stil have the scans of these somewhere, or
photocopies
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Sent: Thursday, August 13, 2020 1:50 PM
Subject: Re: DEC VRE01 terminal documentation
Hi Tom.
Thanks for your message. Well, the Plasma panels use a pretty unique. I'm
attaching the precise waveforms that the Plasma Panel expects to see in order
had scans of most everything. I will see
what I can find
- Original Message -
Subject: Re: DEC VRE01 terminal documentation
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2020 16:38:39 -0400
From: Paul Koning
You may want to see if the PLATO terminal documentation is any help, look on
Bitsavers under
On 13/08/2020 22:29, Tom Uban via cctalk wrote:
Thanks Aaron. The DEC display is quite a bit newer than the old Plato design. I
had one of the Plato
terminals at one time and am quite familiar with them. I also had a digivue
standalone display at
one time, but don't recall what I did with it
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>
Thanks Paul. Yes, I know the old Plato plasma display terminals well, having
grown up with them as
my introduction to computers.
The DEC VR01 is a much newer design, though I'm sure it has some similar
properties, including a
high voltage display. Unfortunately, the display itself never lights
You may want to see if the PLATO terminal documentation is any help, look on
Bitsavers under University of Illinois. Those plasma display power supplies
are hairy devices; the panel is actually a memory device and the power supply
produces a high voltage AC waveform to make that work. Those
