[GreenKeys] The last days of the serial terminal

[Eric Moore]

I wanted to share my video of a color graphics terminal from the 80s with
you all. I realized in some ways this was one of the final and most
advanced descendants of teletypes.

https://youtu.be/SvO5k9Cwt88

What killed the lineage largely was personal computers. Once you had
something that could act as a terminal emulator sitting on your desk, plus
it could help do the taxes and keep the kids entertained, the value of
standalone terminals declined.

Terminals remained a thing for a bit longer, acting as basically 3d
graphics cards on the end of a serial, DMA, or ethernet link, but by the
90s as graphics adapters improved and shrunk they were pretty much dead.

-Eric
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