When I was in high school I noticed my library was replacing their vt terminals with pc's. I asked if I could buy a terminal and they said just stop by when we

When I was in high school I noticed my library was replacing their vt terminals with pc's. I asked if I could buy a terminal and they said just stop by when we close and we will give you one. I was expecting one of the beat up ones used for public card catalog lookup but they gave me the deluxe setup they used behind the desk a vt420 with a dot matrix printer and a wand type barcode scanner. What a score. I wired it up in my little brothers(10) room. He would play nethack and make elaborate barcode based auth systems with it. A lot of fun. I still have strange dreams of running an entire office off terminals to this day. Strangely nobody has taken me up on it yet. But the real lesson is do your part and help a poor high school kid.