Re: [GDDM]

[Dave Mahadevan <mahadevan@xxxxxxxx>]

Doug:

You forget the price on that 5292-2 close to $10,000 and the 5251 about $5,000.
The #$%^ took a whole desk and weighed 100 tons.  What a turkey.   This when you
can get a gallon of milk for $1.59

Douglas Handy wrote:

> Close.    The 5292-02 was the color graphics display.  The 5292-01 was
> color, but no graphics.  The 5292-02 was announced in May 1983 at the
> same time as the S/36, and withdrawn from marketing in Aug 1986, at
> the same time as the 5251-011 and 5251-012.  (Of course, by that time
> I doubt they were still selling many 5251's. <g>)
>
> What makes so many of these confusing was the model suffix.  EG, the
> 5291-1 had the big logic unit wider than the screen, and came part way
> up the side.  The 5291-2 had the smaller logic unit and took up much
> less desk space than other terminals available at the time.
>
> The 5251 family was even worse.  It had:
>
>  5251-001  Single-user 12x80 screen
>  5251-002  Dual-user; each 12x80 (what you called the 5252)
>  5251-011  Single-user 24x80 screen (the most "popular")
>  5251-012  Remote controller with 24x80 and twinax ports
>  5251-999  Not sure, but I think maybe ideographic?
>

--
Thank You.

Regards

Dave Mahadevan.. mailto:mahadevan@fuse.net


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