30 Aug
2016
30 Aug
'16
7:18 a.m.
On Aug 30, 2016, at 10:06 AM, Chris Osborn
<fozztexx at 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