DEC still strong in government / academia

From: Brian Chase <vaxzilla_at_jarai.org>
Date: Sat Feb 1 21:16:13 2003

On Sat, 1 Feb 2003, Michael Sokolov wrote:

> When I was registering my company in the San Diego County Clerk's
> office in June of last year (that's the same place where couples tie
> the knot on this side of the pond) I was similarly delighted to see
> all the clerks typing on DEC terminals, with DECconnect cables running
> around the office.
>
> And a few years ago when I was still watching TV (happily living
> without a TV for 2.5 years now) there was a program asking people to
> donate blood. They showed footage of the process and my eyes were
> immediately caught by a VT220.
>
> But unfortunately most libraries, a former stronghold of VMS-based
> catalog servers and public DEC VT terminals, have now been lost to
> pee-sea-fication.

Another place you'll find lots of DEC terminals are in California IKEA
stores (and possibly at IKEAs elsewhere). All throughout the upper
level showroom areas are terminals which invariably are VT320s and I
think I've seen some VT420s. I've no idea what the backend systems are.

-brian.
Received on Sat Feb 01 2003 - 21:16:13 GMT