Subj : Terminal machines
To   : ED VANCE
From : Mike Powell
Date : Thu Jan 23 2025 09:28:00

> > I googled it.  Neat.  When I first started at the library in 1988, we had
> > terminals similar to those.  IIRC, the keyboards may have been separate
> > from the terminal, and the terminal itself was more rounded vs.
> > sharp-edged.  I forget what brand they were.  They replaced them sometime in
> > 1989 or 90 with the more familiar (to me know) dumb terminals from NEC (I
> > think!) that had the orange screens (few may have been green) and the keys
> > that would make the loud "clicking" sound if you tried to enter data in a
> > protected field or otherwise exceeded the boundaries of a field or the
> > screen.

> Wang Terminal?

It is quite possible that one of them was!

Mike


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