Date   : Sun, 05 Mar 2006 17:23:46 GMT
From   : Wookie <wooky@...>
Subject: Re: Terminal Emulator/Arcade Problems

In message <43F99523.5020601@...>
          Jules Richardson <julesrichardsonuk@...> wrote:

> Wookie wrote:
> > When I was at Preston Poly, they had bbc b's in the library running as
> > dumb terminals connected to the library databaseon the PRIME mainframe
> 
> Hmm, wonder if they still have the PR1ME in storage? (PR1ME stuff is next to 
> impossible to come by these days - particularly docs and software)

Went to my dad's to get printouts from my poly days, anyway amongst
several dead tree's worth of printouts I found...

IPCF Subroutines (Programmer's Guide to Prime Networks) 55 pages

Hints for Getting Mail Through Various Gateways to and from Janet
50 pages

CPL User's Guide (PRIMOS Command Procedure Language) 228 pages

LIPS (Lancashire Interactive Plotting System) 95 pages

Computing Services User Guide (Lancs Poly) 52 pages

The first 3 might be of interest to Jules and maybe others ? I can scan
them in if anyone's interested thou it might take some time.

A couple of bits from last item that might interest mike...

The PRIME we were allowed to use was a 6550, they also had a Vax 11/750
and 3 other PRIME's for staff only.
The various terminals were BBC's, Tatung's, Apollo's & Datatype 407A's.

Cheers Wookie.

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