More auction goodies

[Joe R.]

   VERY NICE!   I used to have one of these but gave it to Mike Haas. I had
ALL of the ROMs and ALL the manuals for it including a lot of prototype
ROMs and their documentation. Bug Mike to get the stuff scanned and posted
somewhere.

    Joe




At 06:05 AM 1/24/05 -0700, Tom wrote:
>Hi Folks,
>
>Well, today's auction haul includes:
>
>
>A functioning Tektronix 4051 Graphics system w/Data Communication Interface. 
>(circa 1976)
>
>it also came with the RS232 Printer interface
>
>and the following documentation:
>  4051 Graphic Systems Operation Manual
>  Plot 50 Introduction to Programming in Basic
>  4051 Graphic System Reference
>  Reference Guide to 4051 Basic
>  4050 Series Basic Reference Guide
>amd 4051 Option 10 RS232 Printer Interface guide
>
>More information on this system can be found here:
>
>http://www.atariarchives.org/bcc2/showpage.php?page=282
>
>What is really wierd is that I wrote some programs in Basic for this machine 
>in 1977 using some of the built-in vector graphics routines, when I worked
at 
>the Defense Mapping Agency, now called the National GeoSpatial Intelligence 
>Agency. I still have the tape cartridge (200K !!) when I loaded the tape... 
>presto... instant retro memories. I even wrote some notes to myself!! ( Note 
>to Homeland Security and to anyone else reading this email..It was NOT 
>classified!!)
>
>
>Cheers
>
>Tom
>
>
>
>
>-- 
>---
>Please do not read this sig. If you have read this far, please unread back
to 
>the beginning.
>