1 Dec
2006
1 Dec
'06
5:25 p.m.
On 1 Dec 2006 at 17:06, Chris M wrote:
Yes it depends also on what you want to call a
computer. Most of us want to pump diskettes into it
and whatnot, but I opened up an IBM terminal some
years ago and found alot of the guts of a typical
peecee....
Does the term "thin client" sound familiar? :)
Even when a manufacturer had a terminal, some didn't bother with the
additional CPU and just used the same one used to run the display.
Before I had diskette drives, I ran an old Beehive editing terminal
with both a printer and a dual cassette (paper-tape substitute kind)
deck. I could do word processing of a sort on it; was it a computer?
Seems so to me. It had an 8008 CPU and shift-register memory. I
coiuldn't print with it, but that was my shortcoming--I didn't have
the proper printer for it--it had a printer port and a "print" key.
Cheers,
Chuck