I was 19 and worked for Prime Computer (minicomputers) in the Detroit office in 1980-81 as an OS Specialist. In May 1981 I worked the Prime booth in Chicago at

I was 19 and worked for Prime Computer (minicomputers) in the Detroit office in 1980-81 as an OS Specialist. In May 1981 I worked the Prime booth in Chicago at NCC (National Computer Conference), where Xerox first introduced their Star system, running on Ethernet, also a Xerox invention. https://microship.com/national-computer-conference-ncc-1981-byte/ https://microship.com/national-computer-conference-ncc-1981-... We could see the Xerox booth from the Prime booth. It was always packed! Most of the vendors there that I remember were minicomputers and superminicomputers and used 80-character, 24-line terminals, band (line) printers with characters etched on a metal band, etc. The Xerox booth, with a b/w bitmapped display and printer, felt like something from the Jetsons.