[SunRescue] Dumb Term

[Greg A. Woods]

[ On Tuesday, May 22, 2001 at 20:21:41 (EDT), dave at cca.org wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: [SunRescue] Dumb Term
>
> Has anyone here seen an original Stanford SUN system?

I saw what appeared to be a bread-boarded Stanford SUN at the UofC.  My
memory is very faded of the event (and in a similar way that Steve Jobs
"forgot" two of the three things he was shown at PARC, I was more
impressed by the Smalltalk system than the sun).  One thing I do
remember was that my mentors at the time considered the Sun more
important, and indeed I guess they've been right, at least to now.

> Or Megatek maybe?

No, megatek doesn't ring any bells at all.  The Corvus Concept is
closest to what I remember but the date for its announcement doesn't
match (I was already in Toronto in 1984), which is why I think it may
have been a prototype.  I seem to remember the real Corvus Concept
(which I have seen at trade shows) had a blue-white phosphor screen
whereas the JADE workstations had an appropriately green-white
phosphor.

Somewhere I have some printed JADE docs -- maybe they mention the
hardware....

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