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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.

You can find the software running on the server as well as the hardware used to connect to it 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

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
en/saba_dc5000.txt · Last modified: 2020/10/10 17:32 by casandro