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  • ...[[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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • Like the 650, it used a [[serial computer|serial]] [[arithmetic logic unit|ALU]] (digit-serial, not bit-, though), an Up to ten 'manual inquiry stations' ([[printing terminal]]s) could be attached; an interesting innovation, likely one of the earlies
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  • ...on of lights and switches which allows manual control and operation of the computer. ...with the [[operator]] over an [[asynchronous serial line]] attached to a [[terminal]] to perform the operations performed by an old-style front panel.
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  • On system with VMS running, from a video terminal, issue the DCL command: >>>SET TERMINAL PROGRAM
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  • ...e '''Stanford AI Lab''', or '''SAIL''' for short) was an influential early computer science research organization, at Stanford University. ...ndependent institution; the remains of the Lab were merged into Stanford's Computer Science Department. The remnants moved out of the famed D. C. Power buildi
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  • ...machine to emulate an old [[terminal]], usually a [[video terminal]]. The computer on which the emulator is running is usually one which has an [[asynchronous === Terminal Simulators ===
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  • | form factor = small computer ...ter produced by [[Digital Equipment Corporation]]; DEC's second production computer, and another 18-bit machine, like its predecessor, the [[PDP-1]]. It too ha
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  • ...rminals, and sold by [[Norsk Data]] (ND) as product number ND 242, Display Terminal Tandberg TDV 2215. It can be run in a TDV 2115 compatible mode, or in its n The terminal has the following standard interfaces (resident on mainboard):
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  • ...R. Licklider]] joined BBN in the Spring of 1957. A Royal McBee [[LGP-30]] computer, originally ordered by [[Ed Fredkin]] personally, before BBN hired him, was ...ed the [[TENEX]] [[operating system]] for the PDP-10, to support its other computer research.
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  • ...Illinois; it ran on [[mainframe]]s, driving large numbers of interactive [[terminal]]s. (In the late 1960s, custom plasma monochrome [[bit-mapped display‎‎
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  • The '''VAXstation 100''' was a programmable [[graphics]] [[terminal]] manufactured by [[Digital Equipment Corporation|DEC]]. It had a [[bit-map ...r module', which is attached remotely to a 'bus window module' in the host computer, which is connected to the other module via [[fiber optic]] cables. The [[V
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  • ...as a [[host]] system for use on the [[ARPANET]], effectively an enhanced [[Terminal Interface Processor|TIP]]. It was written in the PEESPOL system programmin ...onality (providing groups of [[serial line]]s to which could be attached [[terminal]]s, both hard-wired and via dial-up [[modem]]s, allowing [[user]]s at the t
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  • It was originally intended to allow [[user]]s at [[terminal]]s to simultaneously utilize [[time-sharing]] systems on the [[ARPANET]], u * [[ANTS terminal system]]
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  • ...they also provided groups of [[serial line]]s to which could be attached [[terminal]]s, which allowed [[user]]s at the terminals access to the hosts attached t * [[ANTS terminal system]]
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  • ...Engelbart]]'s [[Augmentation Research Center]], where much of the current computer [[user interface]], which [[Xerox PARC]] later demonstrated, was pioneered; * [[Terminal Interface Unit]]
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  • ...nal|SRI]] which ran on a [[PDP-11]] and allowed a number of [[user]]s at [[terminal]]s to connect to [[time-sharing]] [[host]]s over the nascent prototype [[In ...]], using the [[Stanford 1822 Interface‎]], and later the the [[Advanced Computer Communications|ACC]] [[MLH-DH/LSI11 Multiple Channel Controller|MLH-DH/LSI1
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  • ...ust after their first product, the [[Datapoint 3300]] (which was a [[video terminal]]). ...step. The other is that the 2200 was intended to be a 'programmable video terminal' (so that a single hardware design, with appropriate [[firmware]], could em
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  • (SCENE: Inside of a VAX computer room. CREDITS ROLL as the SYSMGR is sitting in front of the console terminal, typing. He pauses, picks up a small magnetic
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