On Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 02:20:35PM +0300, Mihai Popescu wrote:
> Hello,
>
> This question is somehow off topic but I know there are some readers
> here old enough to shade some light in this matter.
> I want to get and idea of what was or is an old true hardware UNIX
> terminal. I have searched google, but the word "terminal" associated
> with UNIX points most of the time to what we know today as UNIX shell.
> If someone, please, can show me a doc or explain a little bit what was
> a terminal at that moment back in time. I know that it was some kind
> of hardware, maybe RS232 related, used to connect to some main frame.
> But I am unable to find the details. I even lack some tech words to
> search deeper on the web.
>
> Thank you.
The word to search for is "teletype",
-Otto
