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US$995 (equivalent to $5,300 in 2023) The ADM-3A was an influential early video display terminal, introduced in 1976. [1] It was manufactured by Lear Siegler and had a 12-inch screen displaying 12 or 24 lines of 80 characters. It set a new industry low single unit price of $995. [a] Its "dumb terminal" nickname came from some of the original ...
The VT100 is a video terminal, introduced in August 1978 by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC). It was one of the first terminals to support ANSI escape codes for cursor control and other tasks, and added a number of extended codes for special features like controlling the status lights on the keyboard. This led to rapid uptake of the ANSI ...
A graphical terminal can display images as well as text. Graphical terminals [23] are divided into vector-mode terminals, and raster mode. A vector-mode display directly draws lines on the face of a cathode-ray tube under control of the host computer system. The lines are continuously formed, but since the speed of electronics is limited, the ...
The Tektronix 4010 series was a family of text-and-graphics computer terminals based on storage-tube technology created by Tektronix. Several members of the family were introduced during the 1970s, the best known being the 11-inch 4010 and 19-inch 4014, along with the less popular 25-inch 4016. They were widely used in the computer-aided design ...
The text-only monochrome IBM 2260 cathode-ray tube (CRT) video display terminal (Display Station) plus keyboard was a 1964 predecessor to the more-powerful IBM 3270 terminal line which eventually was extended to support color text and graphics. There were three models of 2260. Model 1 displayed 240 characters, formatted as six rows of forty ...
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VT320. The VT320 is an ANSI standard computer terminal introduced by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) in 1987. [ 1 ] The VT320 is the text-only version, while the VT330 adds monochrome ReGIS, Sixel and Tektronix 4010 graphics, and the VT340 adds color. The 300 series replaced the earlier VT200 series, as a lower-cost system better able to ...
The Sol-20, referred to as a "terminal computer", was an early all-in-one personal computer. The Sol-20 was the first fully assembled microcomputer with a built-in keyboard and television output, [a] what would later be known as a home computer. The design was the integration of an Intel 8080 -based motherboard, a VDM-1 graphics card, the 3P+S ...