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From: terry@spcvxb.spc.edu (Terry Kennedy, Operations Mgr.)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec
Subject: Re: GIGI????
Message-ID: <1991Mar26.170023.1191@spcvxb.spc.edu>
Date: 26 Mar 91 17:00:23 GMT
References: <5876@tahoe.unr.edu>
Organization: St. Peter's College, US
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In article <5876@tahoe.unr.edu>, lsmith@unssun.nevada.edu (The Master) writes:

>  I recently purchased a DEC GIGI and Barco monitor, from what I can
> find out, it has an 8k memory, and will emulate a VT52. Does anybody
> out there in DEC land know anything about GIGIs? What are they, what
> were they used for? 

  It also has a brain-dead VT100 emulation. It was the first DEC terminal
to implement ReGIS graphics (predating the VT125). The color attributes
are quite bizarre - the color cell boundaries are not the same as the char-
acter cell boundaries, so if you switch colors, you may have half of a
character being one color and half another. It has Microsoft ROM BASIC in
it as well.

  We tossed a few dozen of these in the trash earlier this year after an
unsuccessful attempt to find them new homes.

	Terry Kennedy		Operations Manager, Academic Computing
	terry@spcvxa.bitnet	St. Peter's College, US
	terry@spcvxa.spc.edu	(201) 915-9381