31 Jan
2009
31 Jan
'09
4:38 a.m.
On Friday (01/30/2009 at 04:08PM -0700), Richard wrote:
In article <a7fd63fa0901301248q37a14569w44258e06d931a72e at mail.gmail.com>,
Seth Morabito <sethm at loomcom.com> writes:
Could they possibly be 3M "SilentWriters"?? 3M once built both a thermal
printer with keyboard, a lot like a little TI Silent 700, which they
called the WhisperWriter. And then they had a CRT terminal called the
SilentWriter. I suggest this because of the characteristic brown keyboard
that those units had... which it appears the ones in the video also have.
Chris
A friend forwarded me this YouTube link today:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WCTn4FljUQ
[...]
Anyone know what kind of terminal this is? I'd freaking LOVE to have
one of those on my desk.
Being the resident terminal freak on this list, its not one that I
recognize. However, I would guess that it was part of the turnkey
system sold to the newspaper. Notice that these terminals are on
almost every journalist's desk in the wide shots.