> On Mar 13, 2019, at 8:40 PM, Paul Koning <paulkon...@comcast.net> wrote:
>
>
>
>> On Mar 13, 2019, at 8:07 PM, Rick Bensene <ri...@bensene.com> wrote:
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>> Paul K. wrote:
>>> TMS-11 did support some specialized devices that could do more. There
>> was the classified page layout system using a Tek 4010 style display
>> (4015? A BIG tube).
>>
>> The big-tube Tektronix DVST (Direct View Storage Terminal) terminal was
>> the 4014. The tube used in that terminal was the largest production
>> DVST tube that Tektronix made.
>> It was also used in the 4054 computer.
>
> An article about those terminals also turns up the 4016 (25 inch tube -- 4014
> is 19 inches). I'm not sure any more which of the two it was.
>
> paul
I found the answer. My Spanish is nearly non-existent, but I can puzzle out
just enough of this
https://ddd.uab.cat/pub/tesis/2002/tdx-0218103-190320/ccs12de16.pdf . On page
17-18 it describes the system used at the Eugene Register-Guard". It's a
three-node 11/70 system, running TMS-11, EMS-11, CMS-11, with 120 VT-72
terminals and an unstated number of VT61 terminals.
EMS-11 is a refinement of TMS-11 that came out around 1979 or 1980 (also known
as TMS-11 V5, I think). It put a thin database on top of the file based
document handling that was there before, so instead of seeing 9.3 RSX-style
file names the customer would see articles named by freeform text phrases. The
Denver Post was the beta site for that product; I got to babysit the initial
deployment which was fun because it didn't involve real work (nothing went
wrong).
The document also mentions CPMS-11, which is "Classified page makeup system"
(i.e., page layout) and refers to the Tektronix 4016 it used.
I also see the CHM has a few TMS-11 documents, presumably not yet scanned.
paul
