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Creation Date
1976
Description
A dumb terminal is a component that allows access to a computer but does not have its own processing capability. They’re basically a keyboard and a screen. The TI Silent 700, so named because it was a dot matrix that printed relatively quietly, came out in this form in 1971 and had a thermal paper output instead of a monitor. It had a modem and accessed remote computers via, yes, a telephone. Enjoy the image of it plugged into a bona fide rotary phone.
Rights
CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
Recommended Citation
McGovern Historical Center, "Texas Instruments Silent 700 dumb terminal" (1976). Library Exhibit Images. 218.
https://digitalcommons.library.tmc.edu/exhibit_construction/218