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From: newman@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (Bill Newman)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Info wanted: what are Tek 4107 and 4051, and HP 2645 and 2621?
Summary: They said, "Would you like some of our old terminals?"
Keywords: info Tektronix 4107 4051 HP 2645 2621
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Date: 3 Apr 89 17:50:09 GMT
Reply-To: newman@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu (Bill Newman)
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Our lab group has apparently been offered some old (?) terminals 
that I can't find
in the HP catalog; I haven't found a Tektronix catalog yet.  ("How can
you tell a theoretical physical chemist from an experimental physical
chemist?":-)  The terminals are in another state, so we can't
just go look to see which ones we want.
I am looking for information like
  "The Tek 4010 is an *old* storage-tube graphics terminal; I used it in
   a computer lab in 6th grade.  The storage-tube screen
   means that it can't erase specific elements or scroll; you
   just draw on it until you decide to erase it, like an Etch-a-Sketch.
   It's so old that maintenance would probably be a major headache,
   but at least you wouldn't have to worry about converting programs
   to run on it, because the Tek 4010 command set lives on in a thousand
   graphics emulators and applilcations programs."
(But we need to decide soon, probably by the end of the week, 
so a prompt sentence is more to the point than a late, great
study of these developments in computer hardware.)

Thanks for any help,
  Bill Newman
  newman@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu