I don't have anything that'll be competitive with the teletype guys but I'll
enter anyway. For clarity.. does my CT1024 count as a terminal even though it
does not possess a dedicated screen?
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From: Chris Osborn <fozzt...@fozztexx.com>
Date: 2016-08-30 7:06 AM (GMT-08:00)
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" <cctalk@classiccmp.org>
Subject: It's Terminal Week on RetroBattlestationst
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!
Terminal Week is from August 28th to September 3rd. To participate in the
contest you need to make a new post to RetroBattlestations of a picture or
video that you shot of a computer terminal for this contest. At the end of the
week 2 winners will be selected based on the oldest/newest setups as described
above and will receive custom flair. In addition to the flair winners 3 other
winners will be randomly selected. Each winner will receive their choice of two
retro stickers: http://imgur.com/a/iAS5T
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