Dictaphone Dual Display system
This is the Dictaphone Dual System base unit with a model number of 3002. This is an Intel 8085 based word processor that was available through Artec International, a subsidiary of Pitney Bowes. Dating from mid to late 1981 based on the dating of the internal chips.
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- Dictaphone Dual Display – computer front
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- Dictaphone Dual Display – computer back
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- Dictaphone Dual Display – computer bottom
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- Dictaphone Dual Display – bottom label
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- Dictaphone Dual Display – internals
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- Dictaphone Dual Display – keyboard mechanism top
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- Dictaphone-Dual-Display-Intel 8085
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- Dictaphone-Dual-Display-motherboard
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- Dictaphone Dual Display – keyboard PCB top
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- Dictaphone Dual Display – keyboard PCB bottom
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- Dictaphone Dual Display – keyboard mechanism bottom of switches
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- Dictaphone Dual Display – Cherry Capacitive foam and foil
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- Dictaphone Dual Display – Cherry Capacitive switches
Nice. Had a chance to power this up yet? What does it mean by “Dual Display” can you connect this to a TV or monitor?
Dual display refers to the fact that it had a full screen monitor (green-screen) on the main terminal as well as the single line display on each of the keyboards. They would not connect to any regular monitor as far as I’m aware.
The system I used was running in 1983, long before any type of PC was commonplace. It was a main unit with three networked terminals consisting of the keyboard shown with a built in single line display. The dual full monitor style display was directly attached to the main unit. It also had several 8-inch drives attached with removable ‘cassettes’ and lived inside it’s own air-conditioned room.
Anyone know what OS or software these were supposed to run ?
Had one of these years ago. Actually used it to do a resume in 1994. I not only had the full page display, but also the (extremely loud) daisy wheel printer. That printer sounded like a machine gun, but it looked way better than my dot matrix. Sadly, my mom threw it away somewhere around 2000.
I worked on this system at Pitney Bowes in the mid 80’s … but only worked with the single line display screen – created some great tables with just that display screen! They used to run on 8″ disks.