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My earliest memories of seeing computers in action
were at the library. Old
ADM-3 terminals with light pens to scan in barcodes on the books and on
your library card. Plus the muffled sound of a line printer in back doing
lists of late check-outs.
This would have been in the 1980's. The library I used to go to still had
those ADM's well into the '90s, then replaced with gray sided, amber
screened WYSE VT-100 lookalikes. But the UI looked the same, so I assume
the backend was the same.
Anyone know what minis ran library management software back then? I know
the university I went to was all Amdhal with 5250 terminals, but the local
libraries obviously used something smaller.
in the early 90's, I remember a gold coast library using a greenscreen and keyboard
only terminal
so customers could search the library's database
i don't remember what the staff where using as I was young back them
tom