Yes Chris there was a space invaders game, and more.  I plead the 5th, my former
employer might try to collect back wages for the time spent playing them!

L. A. Barnes

Chris Bartram wrote:

>  In <[log in to unmask]> [log in to unmask] writes:
>
> >    Model |  1980    1981    1982     1983  1984    1985
> >    ------|---------------------------------------------
> >    2621A | $1450   $1595    gone     gone   gone   gone
> >    2621P | $2550   $2650   $2750     gone   gone   gone
> >    2621B |     -       -       -    $1595  $1295   gone
> >    2626A |     -   $3950   $4150    $4350  $4400  $4900
> >    2382A |     -       -   $1700    $1700  $1720   gone  shadow
> >    2622A |     -       -   $2075    $2175  $2210   gone
> >    2623A |     -       -   $3750    $3750  $3250  $3250  b&w graphics
> >    2624B |     -       -   $2890    $3000  $3035  $3035
> >    2627A |     -       -       -        -  $5975  $5975  color graphics
>
> 2640A ???
>
> The first terminals I used were 2640As in 1977. They looked identical to the
> 2640Bs, but had ~1k(?) of memory - enough for about 8 full (80 character)
> lines on the screen, or 24 lines of a couple characters each... Very annoying
> to list anything on, as they obviously scrolled A LOT... :-)
>
> No View/Del support as I recall (hard to create forms small enough anyway) but
> they hummed along at 2400 baud... which was screaming compared to the 110baud
> ttys we had elsewhere.
>
> >    2640B | $2600
> >    2640C | $4250                                         Cyrillic
> >    2641A | $4100                                         APL
> >    2645K | $4000                                         Katakana
> >    2645N | $3750                                         Danish/Norwegian
> >    2645R | $4350                                         Arabic
> >    2645S | $3750                                         Swedish/Finnish
>
> Though I never personally saw it, I understand there was a pretty nifty
> "space invaders" games written for the 2645 terminal (using the onboard
> microprocessor and loaded via the tape drives).
>
> >    2647A | $8300                                         b&w graphics, BASIC
> >    2647F |     ?   $8950   $9400    $9950  $9950   gone  b&w graphics, BASIC
>
>       -Chris Bartram