This Soroc line of terminals was popular with early personal computer users due to its relatively low cost ($995 for the IQ-120, for example). Both were monochrome with 80x24 character capabilities.

Recently, a Reddit user discovered a rare RCA Spectra 70/35 computer control panel from 1966 in their family's old collapsed ...

Before personal computers, there were mainframe computers and timesharing terminals.Users would log in to an account from a terminal to a mainframe, and issue commands to the mainframe to process.

However, mainframe IBM computers used an odd style of terminal and emulating it on a PC isn’t always as satisfying. At least, that’s what [lowobservable] thought, so he decided to get a 3270 ...

Though business microcomputing is less than 10 years old, personal computers seem to be everywhere. Dozens of magazines, hundreds of books and thousands of articles attest to their widespread accep… ...

IBM mainframes are known for very unusual terminals. But IBM made many different things, including the IBM 3151 ASCII terminal, which uses a cartridge to emulate a VT220 terminal. [Norbert Keher] h… ...

In this explainer, we’ll look at the IBM mainframe computer—what it is, how it works, ... All display is through character-based screens using 3270 emulated terminals.

Early UNIX computers were created in 1970 and used dumb terminals connected to mainframe computers on which users had time-share accounts.

When you think of mainframes, you probably think of spinning tape drives, reams of computer cards, and text-only, green-on-black 3270 terminals. IBM's latest mainframe, the LinuxONE Emperor 5 , is ...