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Our local library had them for a while when I was young. The Windows PCs that eventually replaced them seemed worse - they seemed okay at doing a thousand diffe
by Nition 4y ago
Our local library had them for a while when I was young. The Windows PCs that eventually replaced them seemed worse - they seemed okay at doing a thousand different things instead of very good at doing one thing. The amber sceen PCs were hyper-focused on searching books.
Looking back now, they were probably DEC VT320s as seen in this LGR video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RuZUPpmXfT0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RuZUPpmXfT0
- wkat4242 4y agoI think that focus and efficiency is why many people still enjoy TUI and CLI tools to this day.
- mat_epice 4y agoWow, this brings back a memory that was quite heavily buried. Either in middle school or high school, we had some similar amber terminals for searching the card catalog. I appreciated at the time how much quicker it was to use those than the web-based system accessed via Windows 95 (?) desktops.