Obsolete Technology: Amber Monitors (2020)

Re:Obsolete Technology: Amber Monitors (2020) by bitwize on Monday January 09, 2023 @07:51PM (#34318795)

I associate amber monitors with three things:

* DEC terminals at my school, all our grades and stuff lived in a VAX and the office personnel accessed it through VT220s or maybe VT320s

* the InfoTrac at the public library, late 80s early 90s. This was a search engine for newspaper and magazine articles that you could find in the microfiche section of the library. It basically consisted of a PC -- maybe XT or AT class with the entire search database on wonderful new things known as CD-ROMs. Text mode only, the amber monochrome monitor was hella stupid burned-in.

* one time my dad set up a Northgate 386 for his company with Xenix on it and it had an amber monochrome monitor.

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Re:Obsolete Technology: Amber Monitors (2020) by RubyRidgeRandy on Tuesday January 10, 2023 @12:30AM (#34320897)

I also had these terminals at my public library much into the later 90s and early 2000s. Now that library and the terminals are long gone. Getting old is weird!

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Re:Obsolete Technology: Amber Monitors (2020) by bitwize on Tuesday January 10, 2023 @01:05AM (#34321105)

My old hometown's public library is still there. In the front lobby is a display of some of their old card catalog cabinets and drawers. Drawers I used to find books with the Dewey Decimal System. Now displayed like relics from a forgotten civilization.

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