#Terak Users?
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I'm looking for other users of the Terak 8510 computer, an old 1980s era
LSI-11 based system that ran UCSD Pascal, RT-11 and other software. I just
bought an old one, but without a monitor, so in particular I'm looking for
the pin-out of the monitor cable so I can craft a new one. I don't drop
into this forum often, so if you could enter /mail instead of /post after
you've composed a reply, I'll get it in Easyplex instead. Thanks!
Yeah, I got one too. I'm in the process of making up a cable. I've got the
boxes but no wires. Looks like the fitting supports a speaker and power
switch. Let you know when I get things figured out.
How are you fixed for software?
Good luck !
Art
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Sorry for the long delay. I've got a several large boxes full of legit
software, all with original docs, etlicenses, etc. The univoerersity
once used these Teraks for instructional purposes, centered around
UCSD Pascal. What do you have? I've spent a little time tinkering
in assembler modifying a terminal program so that it will send
entire disk images to another PC, in my case, an Amiga. I've
moved several entire block-for-block disk images to the A imiga
already. Then I wrote some C utilities that convert these disk
images into their component files on the Amiga. In this way, I
can archive disk contents very easily on the Amiga, and in the future,
as I improve these utilities, the conversion will be better.
No,w, I do properly convert tetxt files to Amiga (Unix-like) format.
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Sorry for the long delay. I've got several large boxes full of legit
software, all with original docs, licenses, etc. The university once used
these Teraks for instructional purposes, centered around UCSD Pascal. What
do you have? I've spent a little time tinkering in assembler modifying a
terminal program so that it will send entire disk images to another PC, in
my case, an Amiga. I've moved several entire block-for-block disk images
to the Amiga already. Then I wrote some C utilities that convert these
disk images into their component files on the Amiga. In this way, I can
archive disk contents very easily on the Amiga, and in the future, as I
improve these utilities, the conversion will be better. Now, I do properly
convert text files to Amiga (Unix-like) format.
John, been meaning to get back to you. Try the male pin on the CRT
connector. On my machine it is traced to a BNC connector and outputs
composite video. I've got zilch for software- just a running set of boxes.
They're going for cheap in the LA area, Douglas seems to have dumped a
bunch of them.M Any chance you can sell me an operating system? BTW, There
are lots of expansion disk drives around.