I used to (2012 - 2014) work on that Sounding Rocket program the article talks about. I never saw a monochrome screen, but the computers handling the telemetry

I used to (2012 - 2014) work on that Sounding Rocket program the article talks about. I never saw a monochrome screen, but the computers handling the telemetry monitoring during launches were old Dolch lunchbox style cases holding a single board PC with a really cruddy LCD panel. The computers were either 386s or 486s (depending on which one you got) running DOS 6 and a program written for telemetry monitoring in 1989 called 'tdp502.exe'. This was written in Borland Turbo C++ and was rather flaky. Coming off a program with 2000s era equipment for telemetry and monitoring, going to this was a big shock and the pain of using such antiquated equipment made everything very difficult.