On Sunday (03/25/2018 at 07:11AM -0700), Mark J. Blair via cctalk wrote: > > > > On Mar 24, 2018, at 22:29, Michael Brutman via cctalk > > <cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > > > > Picture here: https://i.imgur.com/ClCw070.jpg > > <https://i.imgur.com/ClCw070.jpg> > > Neat! I haven't seen one of those since 1987, when I briefly played with a > workstation that had one of those in an unguarded computer room in college. > It was running some sort of CAD demo in which you could rotate, translate, > and scale a wireframe model with the dials. I seem to recall that it was > propped up diagonally on some sort of stand, but I don't remember if that was > a standard feature vs. something cobbled together locally. > > Good luck learning how to talk to it. I can think of a number of different > applications in which a physical interface like that might be nice.
Maybe there's some relationship to the SGI dial boxes?? I have an SGI one but don't know anything about the IBM ones. They were built by Danaher and Seiko and both SGI and Sun offered those models... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dial_box http://yehar.com/blog/?p=3471 https://github.com/hanshuebner/sgi-dialbox-usb/blob/master/dialbox.py Chris -- Chris Elmquist