Atex, now Newscycle, also had a Classified Advertising system out at that time. I remember reading a article somewhere saying that Atex was going to use the J11 for that system.
Sent from my iPhone > On Mar 13, 2019, at 06:41, Toby Thain via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> > wrote: > >> On 2019-03-13 9:31 AM, Paul Koning via cctalk wrote: >> >> >>> On Mar 12, 2019, at 10:10 PM, Fritz Mueller via cctalk >>> <cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: >>> >>> Hmmm, are these the atex racks seen lurking in the background of that >>> recent storage space trawl down near Houston? >>> >>> https://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-DEC-PDP-11-34-Minicomputer-With-Kennedy-Tape-Drive-J11-CPU-2-Terminals/123688125244 >> >> Interesting. Atex is, or was at one time anyway, a manufacturer of >> typesetting systems for newspapers. DEC was also in that business with >> Typeset-11 (TMS-11) but Atex was more successful, certainly for smaller >> newspapers because it used less expensive PDP11 models. >> > > Funny, I always associated it with big papers (I think the NYT used it?) > > > >> The "multi-processor bus" thing is curious. And I wonder what the terminals >> are like. If they are typesetting terminals, I think they support some sort >> of WYSIWYG editing setup -- that too was a competitive advantage vs. the >> "mark-up" approach (sort of like Runoff on steroids) that Typeset-11 >> offered. Looking at the keyboards would give a clue. > > Pretty sure Atex was pre-wysiwyg. This article may provide some context > on that: > > > https://www.nytimes.com/1991/03/17/business/can-atex-keep-its-proprietary-place-in-the-newsroom.html > > & > https://books.google.ca/books?id=IAGotP-IDocC&lpg=PA1827&ots=jEwR7s7dWM&dq=atex%20customers%201970s&pg=PA1827#v=onepage&q=atex%20customers%201970s&f=false > > > > --Toby > > >> >> The "11-34 minicomputer... J-11 CPU" description is a bit strange. Possibly >> a dual CPU setup with one of each? But that seems strange because those two >> are from different generations, and interfacing them together would be >> tricky and not all that useful. >> >> paul >> >> >
