Alberta Vucom (Control Data) Terminal Boards and Parts

[bburley]

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A long time ago, I had to move and I took this terminal apart (because it was heavy) and put a few items into a box, never to be seen again until the current re-organizing.
A few circuit boards, a few loose parts, and plenty of internal cables with connectors. Any interest?






5176400 IR 529A
51767400
51767402 (2 of these)

 

[Chuck(G)]

Looks like parts of a 700-series terminal.

 

[bburley]

That doesn't sound familiar - I looked a little further and Control Data had a number for it of 92423-10 and also referred to it as CC5A5-A or CC5A6-A. (Slightly different than the number above of CC6A9-A)
The name displayed on the front was "VUcom I" and called a "Conversational Display Terminal".
Then they made a special version of it referenced by "QSE 14965" where they changed the interface board from 1EZE-1 to 1EZE-3 to upgrade to RS-232-B to connect with an AT&T 202 series modem.
And no, I am not that smart or have that good of a memory - I peeked in the manuals

 

[Chuck(G)]

Back when I used the 713 (IIRC), it was a widely-spaced 8 line display, upgradable to 16 lines. The rear panel looked pretty much like the one you show, but the baud rate stopped somewhere around 1200. CDC had a dual system of numbering--a fairly simple one (3 digits) for equipment for use on CDC installations, and then the 5 digit (9xxxx) one for OEM use, with many variations. Same situation with disk drives and printers.

 

[bburley]

Anything is possible, just have never seen any reference to 700 Series. The manuals that I have are scanned photocopies, so not great but these images are accurate. Now that I see the printer and tape unit, I remember having those too. I don't remember for sure what I did with them, but they are long gone. What I remember best is how heavy everything was. The desk they sat on could have survived a tornado

 

[Chuck(G)]

http://bitsavers.org/pdf/cdc/terminal/713/62033400A0_CDC_713-10_Conversational_Display_Terminal_Hardware_Programming_Manual_Jun1972.pdf

 

[bburley]

Well, if I don't learn something every day
I had to add that manual to my collection, even though I don't have the terminal anymore.
And I just finished uploading my poor-quality manuals to archive.org

Control Data 92423 10 ( CC 5 A 5 A, CC 5 A 6 A) VUcom 1 Conversational Display Terminal On Site Customer Engineering Manual ( 1975) : Control Data Corporation : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Control Data - 92423-10 (CC5A5-A, CC5A6-A) - VUcom 1 Conversational Display Terminal - On-Site Customer Engineering Manual (1975)

archive.org

Control Data 92423 10 ( CC 5 A 5 A, CC 5 A 6 A) VUcom 1 Display Terminal Reference Manual ( 1973) : Control Data Corporation : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Control Data - 92423-10 (CC5A5-A, CC5A6-A) - VUcom 1 Display Terminal - Reference Manual (1973)

archive.org

Control Data QSE 14965 ( CC 5 A 5 A, CC 5 A 6 A) VUcom 1 Conversational Display Terminal Special Purpose Manual ( 1974) : Control Data Corporation : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Control Data - QSE 14965 (CC5A5-A, CC5A6-A) - VUcom 1 Conversational Display Terminal - Special Purpose Manual (1974)

archive.org

Control Data VUcom 1 Display Terminal, Magnetic Tape Cassette Recorder, Impact Printer, Non Impact Printer Operating Instructions ( 1972 10) : Control Data Corporation : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Control Data - VUcom 1 - Display Terminal, Magnetic Tape Cassette Recorder, Impact Printer, Non-Impact Printer - Operating Instructions (1972-10)

archive.org

 

[Chuck(G)]

In the late 60s and early 70s, we used very different terminals on the 6000-series hardware. Intercom ran on the 200 UT: http://bitsavers.org/pdf/cdc/terminal/82128000_200_User_Terminal_Hardware_Reference_Jul68.pdf
6 bit (display code) + parity. A year or two ago, someone posted a photo here of the display controller + display that someone had turned up. We never had the Selectric typewriter--standard setup was the controller+card reader+line printer (drum unit, not train).

 

[bburley]

Well isn't that interesting. As soon as I looked at the picture, I recognized the keyboard right away. I still have an almost identical (mine has a few more keys) keyboard. Mine is the CDC CA112-A. I wonder if anyone here would want that? (although I did rewire all of the keys to drive another device).