On 03-Sep-18 13:37, Al Kossow wrote: > > On 9/3/18 10:29 AM, Timothe Litt wrote: > >> For most purposes, the GT40 was superseded by devices like the VT105 (VT100 >> + b/w graphics), VT125, GiGi, & VT240. But >> those are all raster scan devices - which can't match the quality of a >> vector display. And none of them had a lightpen. > In the vector world, the replacement was the (really expensive) VS-60, made > by Sanders. > That competed with Vector General, E&S, and Megatek > > There was also the weirdo VSV-11, a low-res raster display that talked VT-11 > opcodes. > > Once our CAD group moved off the -10s, the next step was Sun workstations for schematic capture (VALID).
I think VLS (the in-house VAX Layout System) used Megatek displays. The VS8000 (I acquired one surplus - internally) incorporated graphics from Evans & Sutherland. It was some sort of joint venture. Besides the 3D graphics pipeline, it had a marvelous peripheral - a keyboard length & 2x KB high panel with, IIRC, 8 knobs each slightly smaller than the hockey puck mouse. One used them for 3-D pan, zoom & rotate. (Yes, it has a mouse, too). It was really impressive. Unfortunately, I had no interest in the graphics capabilities, so I removed the display hardware to make room for a bunch of disks - it became a disk server for my LAVC. And, since it uses an 8250, I could add a processor (or two?) to make it a SMP VAX for one of my group's projects. And the only SMP VAX that could run in an an office (cube) environment. (I doubt that was a supported configuration.) Sanders was a -10 customer of mine in the early 80s, but while I knew about their graphics displays, I wasn't involved with that LOB.
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