I got my first home computer in 1978 (a NASCOM-1 Z80 kit) and remember that used Teletypes (basically a printer with a keyboard) were still available back then,

I got my first home computer in 1978 (a NASCOM-1 Z80 kit) and remember that used Teletypes (basically a printer with a keyboard) were still available back then, and more affordable than video terminals such as the VT52. The famous VT100 terminal only came out in 1978 and cost $1500 or so, so wasn't the sort of thing you would use with a $200 home computer. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teletype_Model_33 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teletype_Model_33 I was recently thinking of playing with a VT102/220 emulator on a Raspberry Pi as an external 120 col display for a BBC micro. Cheap to do today, but not exactly retro-computing since it would have been prohibitive back in the day.