Compatible colour

Light and sound A new terminal from RCA offers interactive operation with standard RS232 asynchronous interconnect combined with colour graphics. The terminal connects to a black and white or colour monitor, giving displays in eight colours'in formats of 40 characters by 24 lines,or 20 characters by 12 lines. The character sets include Greek letters and playing card suits. The terminal is marketed by

Norbain Displays. Circle 096 on enquiry card.

Techex offers graphics to S-lO0 users.

Analysing errors

Xenix-based micro

Codex has launched a portable digital error analyser for use in most data circuit testing applications. It operates on data rates of 300bps to 10Mbps, generates and accepts eight standard data patterns and performs arithmetic, timing, display and interface functions. The Fireberd 1500 costs around £3,000, inclusive of RS232 interface and printer controls. Circle 097 on,enquiry card.

The Bleasdale 16-bit microcomputer operates under a version of Unix known as Xenix. Software facilities include programming in C, text processing, and information handling programs for sorting, merging, scanning and translating files. A Bleasdale 600 system with 256K of memory, eight I/O ports, 500K-bytes of floppy disc storage and a 10 megabyte Winchester disc costs a b o u t £I0,000. Circle 091 on enquiry card.

ICL news Two more point-of-sale terminals have been added to the ICL 9500 range. The terminals offer data collection and negative credit checking. Prices start at £ 1,200 each for bulk orders. ICL is to incorporate the Nexos 2200 word processor into its Networked Product Line. Store capacity of the System 25 has been tripled to a maximum of one megabyte. Circle 092 on enquiry card.

Palette colours The MA 512 graphics generator in combination with the MA Palette will produce up 256 simultaneously displayable colours on a standard television monitor. The palette operates with up to eight graphics generator boards, using a user programmable colour look-up table. The board incorporates an onboard microprocessor, so that no load is placed on the host computer. The system is supMARCH 1982

ported by a three-part CP/M software package. The board will produce monochrome or colour graphics. Techex is also marketing DEC compatible colour graphics terminals, and a graphics board which adds monochrome graphics capability to the DEC VT 100 and VT 103 terminals. Circle 093 on enquiry card.

Talk to your Pet Commodore Pets can be linked to other computers using Compass, a communications package produced by D a v i d R i c h a r d s o n . T h e package allows links by modems, acoustic couplers or direct wired links. Functions ~includcd arc receive, transmit and print f'dcs, print screen displays, and select baud rates, parity and echo. The system costs £145, and will run on Commodore 8032, 8096 and Supcrpets. Circle 094 on enquiry card.

Compatible colour Mellordata is marketing the Colorscan range of colour display terminals in the UK. The terminals, which can be used in monochrome or colour mode, are compatible with D E C V T 100, Lear Siegler,Hazeltine and A D D S terminals. U p to eight colours can be used at one time, with 128 standard characters, plus the same number of graphics symbols, which can be customised to meet a user's requirements. Circle 095 on enquiry card.

Data by hand The Micropad hand print data entry terminal is now available under 3270 BSC protocol for IBM users. Up to nine Micropads, and a printer or console, may be attached to an intelligent controller. For increased connectivity the controllers can be multidropped. Using the IBM facility, programmers can design Micropad documents as part of the 3277 screen format. A nine-pad system will cost £17,500, and is available from the Quest group. Circle 098 on enquiry card.

sor, using between two and 16 workstations. The software provides information such as order specification, stock control, production plans, and accounting data. Circle 099 on enquiry card.

Production planning The GPICS

application program offers production control on a Xerox 3100 business computer. The package is modular, offering production planning and the ability to ask "what if?." type questions based on various time periods. Once a plan has been decided, to the level of machine loading plans if required, the necessary work orders are produced, and overdue purchase orders are automatically chased. GPICS is intended for small to mcdimn companies, or large concerns with satelliteproduction. Prices start at £15,000, from Gresham Computer Services. Circle 100 on enquiry card.

Colourful character A 14-inch colour screen with eight colour display is one of the features of the Lyme 6000 colour terminal from Gresham Lion. Characters may be displayed on the screen in single or double width, underlined, or in a dot matrix. Background and foreground offer a total of 64 colour combinations. The screen is smooth scrolling, has a detachable keyboard, mad is available with various software options and graphics packages. Circle 101 on enquiry card.

Small scale production A production control system designed especially for the smaller company with up to 200 staff is being marketed by Dicoll and SPIS. The Standard Production I n f o r m a t i o n System is a hardware/software package based on a DEC LSI 11 proces-

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