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From: john@minster.york.ac.uk
Newsgroups: comp.terminals
Subject: Wanted: BLIT Mk 2 (BLIT with Ethernet)
Message-ID: <555153727.14490@minster.york.ac.uk>
Date: Wed, 5-Aug-87 05:22:07 EDT
Article-I.D.: minster.555153727.14490
Posted: Wed Aug  5 05:22:07 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 9-Aug-87 10:16:40 EDT
Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of York, England
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Does anyone know where we can obtain an inexpensive, commercially-produced,
fully-programmable, bit-mapped graphics (>= 1024 x 768 monochrome) terminal
with a fast (say Ethernet) interface? A BLIT Mk 2 is what we're really after.

The intended use is for a University student terminal classroom - i.e. they
must be robust, inexpensive, and come as a two box unit (monitor + keyboard).
Suggestions of SUN, Apollo etc. workstations will be ignored (physically too
big, too locked in to manufacturer's cruddy software), as will suggestions of
Atari STs, Macintoshes, IBM-PCs etc (too many boxes, too small a screen, etc).

We'd build our own, but someone else must have beaten us to it, surely!

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