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How about ski game?
Peter C.
Larry Barnes <[log in to unmask]> wrote in message
news:F4B1826B1A21D211AEC5006008207AF4021140BB@dogbert.csillc.com...
> 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
>
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