11 Dec
2006
11 Dec
'06
8:54 a.m.
In article <457D7FEB.1060902 at srv.net>,
Kevin Handy <kth at srv.net> writes:
It may be that the customer used, at one time, a
computer
with a Hazeltime terminal. Not being a "real" computer
literate person, that is what he called the computer.
When questioned, the poster insisted it was a computer and not a
terminal. Since he didn't post a close-up picture of the connectors,
its hard to say. He swears he remembers connecting disk drives to the
Hazeltine.
As others pointed out, once you get a microprocessor based terminal
you're only a storage system away from a microcomputer. Hell, the
ZX81 feels like this -- it has just enough CPU power to keep the
screen refreshed. When you made the CPU work harder, the refresh
suffered.
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