5 May
2006
5 May
'06
4:37 p.m.
In article <f4eb766f0605042234x9a81d1ra1bf9ef709009f93 at mail.gmail.com>,
"Ethan Dicks" <ethan.dicks at gmail.com> writes:
But I'd agree - there's nothing spectacular
about them... Given the
choice, I'd probably rather have a "modern" DEC terminal.
From a collector's viewpoint, modern terminals
don't have much visual
appeal. I think once the electronics got small enough to
fit inside
the enclosure for the CRT tube, all the terminals started to look like
monitors with keyboard and serial ports.
It seems that nowadays terminals are only used for character markets
where cost is a factor. Fancy graphics terminals probably won't ever
come back, except possibly as some sort of beefy thin client.
Is anything still going on with X terminals?
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