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Peter Chong <[log in to unmask]>
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Peter Chong <[log in to unmask]>
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Thu, 2 Sep 1999 11:17:53 -0700
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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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