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!
Terminal Week is from August 28th to September 3rd. To participate in the contest you need
to make a new post to RetroBattlestations of a picture or video that you shot of a
computer terminal for this contest. At the end of the week 2 winners will be selected
based on the oldest/newest setups as described above and will receive custom flair. In
addition to the flair winners 3 other winners will be randomly selected. Each winner will
receive their choice of two retro stickers:
http://imgur.com/a/iAS5T
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