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Since my wife

taxlady started the ball rolling with trying to sell some old computer equipment, I thought I would carry on the tradition. I'm posting this in my friends list now, and will post to

montreal later if there're no bites.

What I have available is an OLD (1981) color graphics monitor. Its a 19" InteColor 8001I/B03L. This was once the top-of-the line monitor made by Intelligent Systems Corp (which became InteColor, and has now been absorbed by Rockwell Automation).

Features include:

19" Color CRT
80 Character wide by 48 lines of text
64 Standard ASCII Characters (5x7 pixels in a 6x8 cell)
Optional Added 32 ASCII Lower Case Characters (Thats what the +B03L means)
64 Standard ISA (Mosaic Graphic) Characters
White, Blinking Non-Destructive Cursor (Underscore or Block)
8 Foreground and 8 Background colors: Black, Red, Green, Blue, Yellow, Magenta, Cyan and White
Display Support for
- Tab
- Erase Page
- Erase Line
- Blink

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Since my wife <user site="livejournal.com" user="taxlady"> started the ball rolling with trying to sell some old computer equipment, I thought I would carry on the tradition. I'm posting this in my friends list now, and will post to <user site="livejournal.com" user="montreal"> later if there're no bites.

What I have available is an OLD (1981) color graphics monitor. Its a 19" InteColor 8001I/B03L. This was once the top-of-the line monitor made by Intelligent Systems Corp (which became InteColor, and has now been absorbed by Rockwell Automation).

<img src="http://sti.pooq.com/archive/Images/Technology/isc8001.jpg">

Features include:<ul><li>19" Color CRT</li><li>80 Character wide by 48 lines of text</li><li>64 Standard ASCII Characters (5x7 pixels in a 6x8 cell)</li><li>Optional Added 32 ASCII Lower Case Characters (Thats what the +B03L means)</li><li>64 Standard ISA (Mosaic Graphic) Characters</li><li>White, Blinking Non-Destructive Cursor (Underscore or Block)</li><li>8 Foreground and 8 Background colors: Black, Red, Green, Blue, Yellow, Magenta, Cyan and White</li><li>Display Support for<ul><li>Tab</li><li>Erase Page</li><li>Erase Line</li><li>Blink</li><Color Select</li><li>Cursor Up; Down; Left; Right; and Home</li><li>Cursor X/Y Positioning</li><li>Transmit</li><li>Insert/Delete of Character/Line</li><li>Page Roll Mode</li></ul></li><li>101 Key ASCII Keyboard with Colored Key Clusters and Serial Ribbon Cable</li><li>RS-232C Serial Port. Keyboard Selectable to Half-Duplex/Full-Duplex/Local modes</li><li>Selectable Baud from 110 to 9600</li><li>5 MHz 8080A CPU</li><li>5K ROM and 8K Display RAM</li><li>Pixel Addressable 480H by 384V graphics with support for dot, arc and vector plotting</li></ul>

This Dinosaur predates FCC standards on computer equipment RFI, and would fail today. It IS radio noisy, although tinfoil-wrapping the keyboard cable helps a bunch. This thing was working perfectly the last time I plugged it in 10 years ago, and should still work. Be warned that it weighs around 25Kg (55 Lbs), and so its not for the faint of desk. I'm told that there are enough of these things still in operation that Linux supplies termcap entries for using them as terminals. The user manual has long been lost, but I do have the OEM manual, which contains <i>some</i> useful information. There is also an active company manufacturing a PC emulator for these puppies, so I suppose one <i>might</i> be able to find enough info to write a custom display driver for it, were one so inclined.

As for price, this thing sold for US$3355.00 way back when, but I'm willing to give this thing away FREE so long as it goes to a good home where it will be loved and cared for. I'm even willing to deliver it (within reasonable distances) provided I can get some help hauling it around.