<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Hi, Scott...</div><div><br></div><div>Mine was in operation on nightly newscasts and other production. It was replaced by a Chyron if I recall correctly, which may have been a hand-me-down from the owner's Oakland station. Not sure when.</div><div><br></div><div>I'm fortunate to have manuals, fonts and operting software for both the mainframe and the workstation. The mouse appears to be a PS-2 mouse.</div><div><br></div><div>Haven't had time to connect and apply power since obtaining it, but will post a few pix or clips when that happens.</div><div><br></div><div>I'm planning to be back in Florida in Feb. or March... but don't anticipate hauling the Alex along. You're welcome to play if in California, though.</div><br><div><div>On Dec 8, 2010, at 11:44 PM, Scott Thomas wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; ">I would love to see an Alex in action.<div><br></div><div>I was recently talking to the former production manager of the former ABC affiliate in Southwest Florida, WEVU. They had an Alex for a short time. It apparently wasn't reliable enough to use in their newscasts and they swapped it out for a Dubner 30K.</div><div><br></div><div>I was under the impression that the few that were produced were all sent back to Ampex, but I saw one at a production company in West Palm Beach named "Parallax" in the mid-1990's.</div><div><br></div><div>I also remember seeing the development systems at some small trade shows in Florida. The first time I saw it it had an Atari ST mouse attached to it, and the GUI screen was the DIgital Research GEM windowing enviroment. The next year it had a Macintosh mouse attached and the screen looked very Mac like. Always wanted to hear the stories behind that.</div></span></blockquote></div><br><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">Ted Langdell</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">Secretary</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#0018ea" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; color: rgb(0, 24, 234); "></font></div></div></div></span> </div><br></body></html>