11 Jun
2025
11 Jun
'25
10:29 p.m.
At Tue, 10 Jun 2025 12:10:28 +1000, Rob Pike <robpike(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Subject: [TUHS] Re: Your Most Prized UNIX Artifacts?
An original, hand-wire-wrapped Jerq board, later renamed Blit because of
marketing. Also the original mouse, made by Prof Nicoud's lab and signed by
him on the bottom.
The mice that came with the DMD-5620s, the Dépraz Mouse, "Made in
Switzerland" (one of mine says "Type D 85 / P") looks very similar. I
have one in an original AT&T package too.
It's one of my favourite Unix-related possessions, along with the
DMD-5620 itself (or do I have 2?). Not a real Jerq, but still very
nice!
I wish I had the 3B2/500 that I used the DMD with -- but it didn't have
an Ethernet card, and without TCP/IP it did not seem useful enough to
keep at the time I moved into working with full Internet things.
I do also still have a VT102 that reminds me of the PDP-11s I also once
had.
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