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> Or, said another way, it was a teletype terminal which happened to have its own computer inside to talk to. That is exactly what happened. A friend showed Wo
by jecel 5y ago
> Or, said another way, it was a teletype terminal which happened to have its own computer inside to talk to.
That is exactly what happened. A friend showed Woz how to access the Arpanet so he decided to build his own terminal. That was working before he started the Apple I, which simply added a built-in computer to the existing circuit.
In a similar way, the 1980 Decmate and the 1977 VT78 simply added a microprocessor version of the PDP-8 to an existing terminal (VT100 and VT52, respectively).