HP2648A terminal

[Tony Duell]

> 
> I think I have to reluctantly give the nod to the DEC 1350 in terms

What the heck is a DEC 1350? A PDP11 with an IB(V)11 card driving an HP1350?
:-)

> of capability.  But I think the HP's analog vector generator outperforms
> DEC's digital vector generator.

In what way is the HP vector generator analogue? I've just looked in the 
service manual, it has subtractors to calculate the length, XOR gates to 
get the absoule value of that number, counters for the X and Y positions, 
rate multipliers to clock the counters based on the X and Y differences, 
etc. The output of the counters feed the DACs, the outputs of the DACs go 
to the output BNCs.

It's not waht I'd call an analogue vector generator, where a couple of 
ramp voltages are generated using analogue circuitry based on the current 
and end positions of the beam.

-tony