Re: Plan 9, GNOT, 5620 terminals

On Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 10:26 AM, John Floren
<slawmastergmail.com> wrote:
>  Well, I'd be happy to get a Gnot too, I even saw one
when I visited
>  Bell Labs (got to play with the red mouse too), but
the Blit has more
>  charm to it. The monochrome screen, the portrait
orientation... just
>  fun. Anybody who hasn't seen the 1982 video
introducing the Blit,
>  check out http://herp
olhode.com/rob/movies/blit.mpg

Way cool!  I had never seen or heard of this video.  I've
got a 5620
that came along with the 3B2/300 I picked up a year or so
back.  It
thankfully had the keyboard and wild red mouse too.  The
terminal
works, although the mouse doesn't track very well.  Love
those
microswitches in the buttons!  Sadly the 3B2's hard drive is
near
death so it's not yet a working machine.  It did spin up
long enough
*once* to see Unix booting on the 5620, but not long enough
to see
Layers in action.  I did get to see that on SDF's term at
VCF last
year, however:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/chi
classiccomp/1971533476/in/set-72157603093681411/