Can anyone identify this terminal?
Chris Elmquist
chrise at pobox.com
Sat Jan 31 06:38:22 CST 2009
On Friday (01/30/2009 at 04:08PM -0700), Richard wrote:
>
> In article <a7fd63fa0901301248q37a14569w44258e06d931a72e at mail.gmail.com>,
> Seth Morabito <sethm at loomcom.com> writes:
>
> > A friend forwarded me this YouTube link today:
> >
> > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WCTn4FljUQ
> > [...]
> > Anyone know what kind of terminal this is? I'd freaking LOVE to have
> > one of those on my desk.
>
> Being the resident terminal freak on this list, its not one that I
> recognize. However, I would guess that it was part of the turnkey
> system sold to the newspaper. Notice that these terminals are on
> almost every journalist's desk in the wide shots.
Could they possibly be 3M "SilentWriters"?? 3M once built both a thermal
printer with keyboard, a lot like a little TI Silent 700, which they
called the WhisperWriter. And then they had a CRT terminal called the
SilentWriter. I suggest this because of the characteristic brown keyboard
that those units had... which it appears the ones in the video also have.
Chris
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