10 Feb
2011
10 Feb
'11
4:58 p.m.
On 2/10/2011 5:41 PM, William Donzelli wrote:
For example, imagine if terminals were standardized to
64 columns -
what do you do with all the data entry jobs and databases that use
columns 65 and up? Modify them? Programmers cost money. Or if
terminals had 100 columns - the memory chips inside the tubes were
damn expensive, and all those bits for the extra columns would not get
used much. An extra couple hundred bucks times hundreds of terminals
adds up, and looks really bad when they are not used.
Did anybody use 96 column terminals?
--
Will
Ben.