5 Aug
2022
5 Aug
'22
6:37 a.m.
On 5 Aug 2022, at 9:09 am, Grant Taylor via TUHS
<tuhs(a)tuhs.org> wrote:
The idea of something doing graphics over a serial port is intriguing to me. Eliding
some form of IP over a dial up connection.
The closest thing that comes to mind is Sixel or ReGIS graphics.
In the early to mid 1980s I used Tektronix storage terminals hooked up to a PDP-11 and/or
VAX. And we also had an AED terminal that did raster graphics. All via serial comms.
There's a bunch of AED documentation online, including this...
http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/aed/brochures/AED_767_Brochure_Jun82.pdf
<http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/aed/brochures/AED_767_Brochure_Jun82.pdf>
(searching for AED graphics terminal will lead you to the user manual which has a lot more
detail and electrical specs and so on)