I was sure the blinking cursor was a staple of the mainframe folks' terminals years, maybe decades before Apple came on the scene, but I looked up some YouTube

I was sure the blinking cursor was a staple of the mainframe folks' terminals years, maybe decades before Apple came on the scene, but I looked up some YouTube videos and the DEC VT52 (released 1974-1975) seems to have not had a blinking cursor. Its successor, the iconic VT100 did have a blinking cursor, but wasn't released until 1978. Maybe later I'll do more research and look up other old terminal models, but I'm going to stop for now. Also, I guess Apple is a little older than I thought; I always pictured the ubiquitous Apple IIe as a 1980's machine (and I saw some in the wild well into the 1990's). Seeing they were released in the 1970's is pretty interesting.