Subj : Terminal machines
To   : BARRY MARTIN
From : Mike Powell
Date : Wed Jan 22 2025 09:02:00

> Mostly ainframes, though they also did terminals and 'small' stuff.
> Google/Bing "Sanders 720".  ...Quick history: Royden Sanders and some of
> the other founders originally worked at Raytheon; I've forgotten what
> the "ticked off" cause was but he founded his own company, Sanders
> Associates.  ...Eventually Sanders was purchased by Lockheed, which
> eventually sold it to BAE.

I googled it.  Neat.  When I first started at the library in 1988, we had
terminals similar to those.  IIRC, the keyboards may have been separate
from the terminal, and the terminal itself was more rounded vs.
sharp-edged.  I forget what brand they were.  They replaced them sometime in
1989 or 90 with the more familiar (to me know) dumb terminals from NEC (I
think!) that had the orange screens (few may have been green) and the keys
that would make the loud "clicking" sound if you tried to enter data in a
protected field or otherwise exceeded the boundaries of a field or the
screen.

Mike


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