On 2015-04-02, Dale <[email protected]> wrote:
> Well, let's not forget about having the word "login:" burned into the
> screen too. Me, I always turned mine off when I left for the day.
> Everyone else tho, they could see their login prompt all the time, just
> in a slightly different color. o_-
Except there was the time that IT told everbody to _stop_ turning
their terminals off at night because the daily power cycling was
killing the power supplies in the terminals (VT220 and VT240, IIRC).
By that point, I think the terminals may have had a screen saving
feature...
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Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards Yow! Wait ... is this a FUN
at THING or the END of LIFE in
gmail.com Petticoat Junction??
