On 2014-05-20 17:39, Jean-Yves Bernier wrote:
At 8:05 AM +0200 2/5/14, Pontus Pihlgren wrote:
I've yet to see a PDP-11 with builtin color graphics _and_ sound.
This one has both:
http://www2.pescadoo.net/pdp/syter/grm2082.jpg
The machine is a SMS 1000 OEM 11/73.
Here is the mixer screen:
http://www2.pescadoo.net/pdp/syter/INSTR2.GRA.png
and the edit screen:
http://www2.pescadoo.net/pdp/syter/INSTR5.GRA.png
512x512x8 frame buffer manufactured by Arinfo, France.
Serial BitPad.
Custom 4AD/8DA through DRV11.
Discontinued.
Of course... :-(
Anyway, I just realized/remembered that I'm not sure if the PRO was ever mentioned in
the context of PDP-11 with graphics and sound.
The PRO obviously always have grahpics. But there was also a sound option to it, which
could interface with telephone systems. Not sure exactly how capable it was, but I have
some blurb in a handbook somewhere.
Johnny