30 Jan
2009
30 Jan
'09
12:48 p.m.
A friend forwarded me this YouTube link today:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WCTn4FljUQ
It's a KRON Channel 4 news (San Francisco, CA) report from 1981 about
the San Francisco Examiner (and others) making themselves available
online via BBS. My favorite line: "Of the estimated two to three
thousand home computer owners in the Bay Area..." Ah, those were the
days!
I spy a Tandy TRS-80 Model I, a TRS-80 Color Computer! But I'm mainly
interested in the Space-Age looking terminals being used by the SF
Examiner staff in the video. They've got swooping, rounded corners,
white shells, and what looks like an integrated 9 or 10 inch green
phosphor display. Screenshot is here:
http://www.loomcom.com/misc/examiner_terminal.jpg
Anyone know what kind of terminal this is? I'd freaking LOVE to have
one of those on my desk.
-Seth
3:08 p.m.
In article <a7fd63fa0901301248q37a14569w44258e06d931a72e at mail.gmail.com>,
Seth Morabito <sethm at loomcom.com> writes:
A friend forwarded me this YouTube link today:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WCTn4FljUQ
[...]
Anyone know what kind of terminal this is? I'd freaking LOVE to have
one of those on my desk.
Being the resident terminal freak on this list, its not one that I
recognize. However, I would guess that it was part of the turnkey
system sold to the newspaper. Notice that these terminals are on
almost every journalist's desk in the wide shots.
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3:19 p.m.
On 30 Jan 2009 at 16:08, Richard wrote:
Being the resident terminal freak on this list, its
not one that I
recognize. However, I would guess that it was part of the turnkey
system sold to the newspaper. Notice that these terminals are on
almost every journalist's desk in the wide shots.
They have the Perkin-Elmer look about them. Not the cheapie Fox, but
something a little higher up in the product line.
Cheers,
Chuck
31 Jan
31 Jan
4:38 a.m.
On Friday (01/30/2009 at 04:08PM -0700), Richard wrote:
In article <a7fd63fa0901301248q37a14569w44258e06d931a72e at mail.gmail.com>,
Seth Morabito <sethm at loomcom.com> writes:
Could they possibly be 3M "SilentWriters"?? 3M once built both a thermal
printer with keyboard, a lot like a little TI Silent 700, which they
called the WhisperWriter. And then they had a CRT terminal called the
SilentWriter. I suggest this because of the characteristic brown keyboard
that those units had... which it appears the ones in the video also have.
Chris
A friend forwarded me this YouTube link today:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WCTn4FljUQ
[...]
Anyone know what kind of terminal this is? I'd freaking LOVE to have
one of those on my desk.
Being the resident terminal freak on this list, its not one that I
recognize. However, I would guess that it was part of the turnkey
system sold to the newspaper. Notice that these terminals are on
almost every journalist's desk in the wide shots.
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