Our college had one of those Tek terminals back in 1979. It was *really* easy to draw graphics with that thing.
It was also really easy to re-link said graphics apps to feed a plotter.
One of the Tek terminals we had at UMaine in the early 80's had a four-pen table-top plotter attached to it. Took its output directly from the Tek, though for the life of me I can't remember how. I usually re-linked the code and spooled the output to the big Calcomp plotter in the machine room.
Somewhere I still have code that made maps out of the BITNET and EARNET routing tables. It's probably somewhere in my giant collection of magtape reels I still hang on to.
Also,unique to the time compared to the other computer terminals around it had >80 char/line display as I recall. And no screen flicker!
I'd forgotten about that. It was greater than 80, but I don't think it was as wide as 128. I want to say it was something like 112 or so.
And very high resolution graphics - 1024 x 780 or 4096 x 4096 on the high end machine. Computers today don't match the 4096 spec.
Hmmn... what was the pitch on the 4052? I think that's the same model I was using. 4096 sounds awfully dense for the images I remember conjuring.
Yes, I know... this has nothing to do with SDR.