ADM3A 2992
On Fri, 10 Mar 2006 02:02:13 -0500
Damn I've sat in front of enough of them - and I never did find out but a quick look about found this:
From the Old Computers site:
Dennis J. Cagan, co-inventor of this the ADM-3A terminal, reports :
William J. Leary Jr. IIRC, it was a "joke newsgroup" to begin with (possibly contemporaneous with alt.tv.startrek.ensign.crusher.die.die.die era). comp.terminals would...
I just spotted your site when searching for some info on someone. I noticed a Lear Siegler ADM-3A video display terminal on your masthead. Seeing the unit was a thrill. I was one of the co-inventors of the device - it was intended to stand for American Dream Machine. It replaced the LSI 7700A. The ADM-3 itself listed for $1500 originally.
I was the regional sales manager for LSI and sold over 90% of the units sold worldwide from '73-75. I still have the gold ATMOS clock with a plaque to prove it. The other 3 inventors were engineers. We all I left LSI in '75 and started SOROC Technology (the only sign of which is a spin off in Canada www.soroc.com).
The first product from SOROC was actually a design for a product similar to the ADM which we sold to Beehive and it became the B100 in '76-77.
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