Re: ID old computers from Management Graphics?

From: Ken Taylor (ken123_at_xtra.co.nz)
Date: 08/15/04 

Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2004 08:54:05 +1200

"DannyKewl" <bwana1SPAMMENOTREMOVE@lycos.com> wrote in message
news:6KmdnaOAG9rj9IHcRVn-hA@adelphia.com...
> Hopefully this isn't too OT here, but I couldn't really find a newsgroup
to
> fit this, and my searching showed a couple similar questions here. I just
> moved into a new house, and the former owners left 2 older computers in
good
> sized tower cabinets. I would like to know if they are of any practical
use
> and if it would be any benefit to me to check them out or toss/sell them?
I
> only know PC's/Windows. What OS, and any way/benefit on hooking them up to
a
> PC?
>
> The name on the computers state "Management Graphics" (Minneapolis, MN
> 55420), and on the front side is an opening with several circuit boards
> inside, as well as what looks like a 5.25 floppy drive, and another
> undetermined bay next to it. It has buttons labeled "Restart",
> "Halt/Enable", "On" and "Off". On the rear it says Serial: 517 (I think,
> hard to make out, may be 514 or 511), Model: TTS/PLUS, it has 4 ports that
> resemble parallel printer ports, and say "Terminal", "Tablet", "Modem",
and
> "Host". Under those ports there are 3 round jacks that say "Red", "Green",
> and "Blue" (for a monitor?), and under that 3 similar round jacks, two
that
> say "Sync Loop" and one that says "Sync Out". The other computer looks
> identical except it says Model 518. Also a "UL Listed" sticker on the back
> that says "Graphic Workstation 46N0". The units are about 27" high (on
> roller wheels), 14" wide, and 20" deep. I have a picture of the front of
the
> 518 at http://www.geocities.com/dannykewl3/ManagementGraphics1.jpg and a
> closer in shot of the rear connectors at
> http://www.geocities.com/dannykewl3/ManagementGraphics2.jpg
>
> Thanks in advance
>
They look and sound a bit like the graphics workstations some of the
Universities used on their weather data systems in the late '80s, early
'90's. Unless you're really keen to do this out of interest, buy a cheap
graphics card for your PC - it'll be more powerful and more useful. These
workstations were networked with peculiar protocols and weren't exactly
friendly.

Ken

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