Varisystems, Compugraphic

[Joe R.]

   I used to have a Compugraphics machine. IIRC it was a big black box and
had an 8085 CPU. I seem to remember that it dated from 1985.

       Joe


At 04:56 PM 7/22/05 -0700, you wrote:
>The gentlemen who sold me the classic PDP-8 recently
>told me that he had worked in the early 70's at an
>outfit called Varisystems.  They made dedicated
>typesetting systems, one of which he had installed to
>replace the PDP-8.  He showed me a few bits and pieces
>that he had saved, including a wire-wrapped TTL CPU, a
>core stack, and a removable (technician-only)
>diagnostic panel. From the panel, I concluded that it
>was most likely a single accumulator machine.  Has
>anyone else seen one of these machines or know any
>more about them?
>
>There was also an auction on eBay recently of some
>spare parts for a Compugraphics typesetter that
>indicated that it too was based on a proprietary CPU.
>The machine in question was from the late 60's.  I had
>never heard of them until the 80's, when they were
>building systems around the PERQ (!!) and funding some
>development work at CMU.
>
>--Bill
>
>