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I associate amber monitors with three things: * DEC terminals at my school, all our grades and stuff lived in a VAX and the office personnel accessed it throug
by bitwize 4y ago
I associate amber monitors with three things:
* DEC terminals at my school, all our grades and stuff lived in a VAX and the office personnel accessed it through VT220s or maybe VT320s
* the InfoTrac at the public library, late 80s early 90s. This was a search engine for newspaper and magazine articles that you could find in the microfiche section of the library. It basically consisted of a PC -- maybe XT or AT class with the entire search database on wonderful new things known as CD-ROMs. Text mode only, the amber monochrome monitor was hella stupid burned-in.
* one time my dad set up a Northgate 386 for his company with Xenix on it and it had an amber monochrome monitor.
- RubyRidgeRandy 4y agoI also had these terminals at my public library much into the later 90s and early 2000s. Now that library and the terminals are long gone. Getting old is weird!
- bitwize 4y agoMy old hometown's public library is still there. In the front lobby is a display of some of their old card catalog cabinets and drawers. Drawers I used to find books with the Dewey Decimal System. Now displayed like relics from a forgotten civilization.