====== SABA DC5000 in Action ======

** Christian Berger **

Bildschirmtext (BTX) was an early online Service of the German postal service (Post). I will demonstrate a DC 5000 Terminal for this which was meant to be used with normal home TV sets. The vision was to bring a terminal into every home to allow everyone to use computers without having to maintain one.
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You can find the software running on the server as well as the hardware used to connect to it [[https://github.com/bildschirmtext/|here]].

You can get get more info on it in a Talk I held at the Hope 2020 https://archive.org/details/hopeconf2020/20200729_1800_Bildschirmtext.mp4
==== General Specs ====

^ Manufacturer | SABA/Telefunken |
^ Model | DC 5000 |
^ Jahr of Introduction | ca 1985 |
^ Land | Germany |
^ Price when introduced | ca 1000-2000 DM |

==== Technical Spect ====

^ Architecture | eigenes |
^ CPU | Z80 |
^ RAM | 8kByte (oder 16?) |
^ ROM | 8kByte |
^ Grafik | CEPT Standard 40x24 Characters a 12x10 Pixels (480x240) 32 colours out of 4096 |
^ Sound | none |




===== Virtual Table =====

[[https://bbb.vcfb.de/b/chr-cvj-ynp-2bp |To the Virtual Table]]


==== Time of Presence ====

^ Day       ^ Time          ^
|Saturday     | 11:00 - 12:00  |
|Saturday     | 12:30 - 22:00  |
| | |
|Sunday     | 09:00 - 12:00  |
|Sunday     | 12:30 - 22:00  |


==== Presentations ====

Just ask in the chat.

==== Dialup Numbers ====
If you have your own terminal, or you just want to play around with the service there are several ways to connect to it:

=== Telephone Dialup ===
  * +49 9281 549355 190 (v23 with link level protocol (might be buggy))
  * +49 9281 549355 191 (v23 without link level protocol)
  * +49 9281 549355 192 (v22bis 2400 bps)

=== Internet Access ===
  * 195.201.94.166 Port 20000