> On Aug 30, 2016, at 10:06 AM, Chris Osborn <fozzt...@fozztexx.com> wrote:
>
> It's Terminal Week on RetroBattlestations!
>
> https://redd.it/500myn
>
> This week is about those devices that you connect to a computer so that you
> can read output and provide input through a keyboard. The oldest terminals
> used paper for the display, and in the mid '70s the "glass TTY" became much
> more common. In the early days terminals had very little smarts in them. Some
> were electro-mechanical, later they had some circuitry, and by the late '70s
> almost all were using microprocessors inside. In fact if it weren't for a
> terminal company, Intel wouldn't have designed the 8008 microprocessor, the
> grandfather of the x86!
Interesting. I thought it started with the 4004, which was created as the
engine of a desktop calculator.
paul
