At my college, we had a bar with a custom account management system (it managed the credit of each students). The thing was all text/ncurses. The terminal was

At my college, we had a bar with a custom account management system (it managed the credit of each students). The thing was all text/ncurses. The terminal was an under-clocked PII, with all the fans removed and connected to the server using a serial cable and it was kind of necessary since the environment was quite hostile and sticky (spilled beer, some fat deposit, etc). If I recall correctly before the PII, it was a VT-100 console, so even more basic than the PII.