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• Asynchronous serial line
  ...connected printing [[terminal]]s like the [[Teletype]], and later [[video terminal]]s such as the [[VT100]]. In general, asynchronous [[serial line]] interfac ...n used to [[interrupt]] the computer on the other end of the line from the terminal.
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• 20mA current loop serial line interface
  ...not formal) electrical system for [[asynchronous serial line]]s between [[terminal]]s and computers. It was made popular by the [[Teletype|Model 33 Teletype]] ...a terminal; the computer, for an output channel, e.g. to the printer of a terminal) will include the switch; the consumer of the data (the printer, in the out
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• Honeywell 6000 series
  They were descendants of the [[GE 600 series]] family; after GE's computer business was sold to Honeywell in 1970, the 6000 series were Honeywell's re ...arlier machines were replaced with a console terminal, driven by a [[micro-computer]], the 'diagnostic processor', which interfaced to the CPUs, SCUs and IOMs;
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• Compatible Time-Sharing System
  ...ncept' prototype was demonstrated at MIT on a lightly-modified [[IBM 709]] computer in 1960. ...d on a PDP-9. The first console was moved along with the Project MAC CTSS computer to MIT building 39 when the Computation Center machine was retired. The se
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• Command processor
  ...'''command line interpreter''') is a [[program]] to which a [[user]] of a computer gives commands, usually by typing strings of [[character]]s, which the comm Even early [[personal computer]] operating systems such as [[MS-DOS]] made the command interpreter a separ
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• ARPANET
  ...vided groups of [[asynchronous serial line]]s to which could be attached [[terminal]]s, which allowed users at the terminals access to the hosts attached to th ...com/public/1970-imp-afips.pdf The interface message processor for the ARPA computer network]", Proceedings AFIPS, 1970 SJCC, Vol. 36, pp. 551-567.
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• Talk:VT100
  ==Dumb terminal== It's not what I would call a '''dumb''' terminal. [[User:Larsbrinkhoff|Larsbrinkhoff]] ([[User talk:Larsbrinkhoff|talk]])
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• PDP-1
  | form factor = small computer The '''PDP-1''' was the first computer built by [[Digital Equipment Corporation]]. It was an 18-bit machine; a [[l
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• Help:Categories
  The Computer History Wiki has a fairly elaborate set of '[[Special:Categories|categories ** [[:Category:Computer Basics|Computer Basics]]
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• Help talk:Categories
  == Terminal categories == After I created a new article on an obscure video terminal board, it was pointed out to me that since no other article linked to it, W
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• User
  ...ed in to the system over a [[terminal]] (real or virtual). On a [[personal computer]], it would be the person using that PC.
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• ASCII
  ...). It also includes non-printing characters used for control of printing [[terminal]]s - tab, line feed, carriage return, etc. ASCII was eventually used by [[personal computer]]s such as the [[Apple II]], and the [[IBM PC]]. IBM extended the character
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• SITS
  ...a few [[vector graphics|vector]] displays, and [[General Turtle]] [[Turtle Terminal 2500|2500 terminals]]. Programs can be stored in either [[PDP-11 Absolute ...implemented in [[assembly language]] on the PDP-10. In order to provide a computer system dedicated to educational use, it was adapted for the PDP-11. The fir
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• Video terminal
  ...] to do [[input/output]] to a computer; they usually communicated with the computer via [[asynchronous serial line]]. ...directly connected to the computer's main [[bus]], usually on a [[personal computer]].
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• Bit-mapped display
  ...tionship with the rest of the system, they are usually found on [[personal computer]]s. The original bit-mapped displays were an evolution of [[video terminal]]s; once RAM prices fell low enough, the ability to display graphics, etc,
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• Telnet
  ...ther system (again, usually a time-sharing system) as if they were using a terminal attached directly to the remote system. ...ng with the necessary support from the [[operating system]]) on the remote computer.
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• Terminal
  ...[[keyboard]], and receiving back information which the [[software]] on the computer sends to it. ...rminals were [[printing terminal]]s, such as [[Teletype]]s. Later, [[video terminal]]s mostly replaced them, since they were faster, and had other advantages (
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• Keyboard
  ...are struck by a [[user]]. Originally, almost all keyboards were part of [[terminal]]s, but now it is common for them to be independent devices.
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• File:VT05.jpg Marketing photo of VT05 terminal (the image in the screen is apparently manipulated; the monitor was white m Image credit: [http://www.computerhistory.org/ The Computer History Museum] (2,714 × 1,869 (148 KB)) - 23:48, 7 September 2018

• Whirlwind
  ...e-scale computations for numerical [[application]]s. It was also the first computer with [[core memory]], which was invented for it (some time after it had fir Whirlwind was built at [[MIT]] (MIT's first computer), originally for use in a flight simulator, but wound up being used to prot
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