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Klyball

Klyball

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Well I'm on a roll, picked up another terminal off craigslist by chance. checked it over and fired it up and no smoke, seems to be fine.
this seems to be a rare one I think, Control Data CC6A9,
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That one brings back memories--I spent altogether too many hours in front of one some time around 1974.

I recall that this one or one like it could be had with either 8 or 16 lines of display.
 
It has 16x80 and its nice and sharp , the out side seems to have been exposed to the elements a bit but its nice and clean on the inside, it should clean up nicely. its huge!
 
legalize said:
Can I add your pictures to the terminals wiki?

Any other information you could provide on this terminal would be great.
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manual part numbers can be found in M90310500_Internal_Literature_Catalog_Jul75.pdf

pg 221
terminal AKA 92423-15 (OEM)
92423-15 Display Terminal, Oprs Guide 62974700 A-O ' .... "
92423-15 Display Terminal, Ref Mnl 62974800 A-O
92423-15 Display Terminal, Instl Instr 62974900 A-O
92423-15 Display Terminal, On-Site Maint Mnl 62975000

the keyboard looks like ASCII block mode
 
You can see from the keyboard how utterly non-standard the placement of characters outside of the basic QWERTY keys and number was back then. Pull that on a PC user of today and you'd never hear the end of it.

Ah, miniskirts, big hair and go-go boots. Those were the days, eh? Sock it to me!
 
I have some terminals with keyboards that are very funky. One doesn't have a CTRL key anywhere on it :) I think that one is early 70s or late 60s. I haven't cracked open the case to check for date codes yet.
 
legalize said:
I have some terminals with keyboards that are very funky. One doesn't have a CTRL key anywhere on it :) I think that one is early 70s or late 60s. I haven't cracked open the case to check for date codes yet.
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Very frustrating! Like a PET!

And I thought this thread would be about the fatal heart attack one suffered upon discovering a minty (sorry, had to) PDP-6 hidden in a property one purchased.
 
Wiki updated. If you add more pics to this thread, I'll add those too. Crappy pics are better than no pics :). I've added tons of crappy pics from ebay auctions before, so it won't be the first time.
 
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