Humpty Dumpty

Sridhar Ayengar ploopster at gmail.com
Thu Feb 8 10:44:57 CST 2007


Patrick Finnegan wrote:
> On Thursday 08 February 2007 09:06, Richard wrote:
>> Most terminals do not have graphics capability, just character
>> capability.  Color graphics terminals are even scarcer.
> 
> Like the 3278-S3G I got off ebay recently, the VT340, which I traded to a 

The VT340, graphical 3278 and 3279 qualify as "rare".

> friend for a 68040 VME CPU board, or any of the NCD or HDS Xterminals 
> I've got laying around. :)  Oh, and I've got a couple IBM Xterminals, 
> too..

Xterminals don't count.  They're basically full-fledged computers. 
They're not really terminals.  The IBM Xstations can even accept 
internal hard drives for swap and such.  If you count them, there's 
nothing stopping you from counting things like Citrix clients.

Peace...  Sridhar


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