triglav
(Machine, Yugoslavia)
Aka Trident for export, though I seriously doubt they ever sold one abroad, unless it was to some nonaligned country. The terminal and the keyboard could be detached (mostly were, wherever I saw them) and there were usually three or four of them, attached as VT-100 terminals. The keyboard had our layout, what with the diacriticals right away, nothing extra to set up, in juski standard. Ergonomically excellent, and the screen surface was matte, no glare, and wasn't tiresome despite the green phosphor.
It was a 16-bit pdp repackaged into a fancy futuristic box, which was truly original and despite its military-gray-olive color looked great. The version of the OS it had was 3.4, which was far better than the 3.1 we had on stour's PDPs. It had a better command interpreter, there was much more you could do in batch (.cmd) files and the monitors were far better - in design, looks, shape of the green characters, lack of glare, even the angle at which they sat on the desk was better. Of course, nobody sane would put it together as seen on this pictutre, one can't endure two hours in that position. That was just for display and maybe the operator's console. Regularly it had several terminals attached to it. It was just about the best 16-bit system around.
The system messages were in slovenian, and even included a Murphy's law for the day on each boot. I knew the guy who wrote that, that was the famous Zoc in Iskra Delta of Novi, which he wrote while waking up... when they told him that he really should be at work at 7, not 10, so he spent the three extra hours doing nothing much, just having fun, and wrote this thing to kill the time. Someone just substituted slovenian translation of the codex.
Presprom was selling them and we at erc of the stour were helping to set them up and then also do a tezga as a service on the side, to provide the apps, since officially none of the above were registered to build and sell apps. So we went on the side, via other channels, and made some good money there.
The first one, IIRC, went to stambena, to replace the Partner which was getting too small. The next one went to another cooperative of the same kind, in Vršac. Third one went to Gik (same building as sdk; Mima was the boss there a couple of years later; Bogdan used to work there before 1988, and Radoja used to work there after 1973), who had their own staff and didn't need apps. They actually sued Presprom because one RS232 cable was missing, so one monitor was not working, which is bullshit - Toza made such a cable in ten minutes at the cost of two packs of cigarettes - but it came to court. To which both sides agreed to make me the court expert on the matter, so I wrote a couple of pages of... basically what I said in the previous sentence. Don't remember how it came out.
The last one I remember went to the hospital, yet another tezga for Radoja, me and the other two or three folks from erc.
Mentions: november 1986., 19-IV-1988., july 1988., june 1989., 23-IX-1993., Bogdan Levacki, erc, Gik, juski, Merima Tabarski (Mima), Novi Sad, Partner, PDP, Presprom, Radoje Maletin (Radoja), sdk, stambena zadruga, stour, Svetozar Sirilov (Toza), tezga, VAX (Vaha), Version 1.3, in serbian
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