10 Aug
2010
10 Aug
'10
8:36 a.m.
Sunday I went to a local motel with my girlfriend
(I'm hosting two
ladies on my home and primitive noises may not be too comfortable for them).
...
When we were checking out, there was a monitor on the
out with your bill
and...wow, it was a terminal, connected to some kind of *nix system,
everything was serial-based!!! I felt myself in 1980!!! :oD
Very interesting view :D
Up until a few years ago Kaiser Permanente was still using 3270 terminals.
A couple weeks ago, I went to a Pizza Hut in Lake Havasu City and on my way
out noticed that the terminal at the cashier was showing a Linux login
prompt. It took a lot of willpower not to surreptitously try to login as
root.
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