"party line" for terminals?

[Richard]

In article <7.0.0.16.0.20060317175747.052166c8 at irrelevant.fsnet.co.uk>,
    "Rob O'Donnell" <classiccmp.org at irrelevant.fsnet.co.uk>  writes:

> I worked at Ferranti Computer Systems back in the early '80s, (as an 
> apprentice, so I didn't have a lot of access..) and there was some 
> very odd terminals in use for the fire brigade/police systems we 
> made, and also in use for the internal stock system.   They worked 
> very like html forms do today - the server sent a screen image and a 
> pile of input fields, you could mess about filling them in as much as 
> you liked, and then you hit a "send" button on the keyboard.

This "forms" feature is pretty common on lots of serial terminals,
including some of the storage scope displays from Tektronix.
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