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Well Now, Always Remember, Superdavebeastula The Tall White Gothic Vampire Alien, Coming To You from Laval Quebec Canada. So. It Seems to Me we have an old machine over here. It is something that connects to a MAINFRAME or possibly to a SUPER COMPUTER. My Digital Host, David, has taken computer courses back at Dawson College. The teacher or professor who was teaching talked about Programming with "Dumb Terminals". This what is being displayed in the picture. According to Wikipedia this machine, "The ADM-3A is an early influential video display terminal, introduced in 1976. It was manufactured by Lear Siegler and has a 12-inch screen displaying 12 or 24 lines of 80 characters. It set a new industry low single unit price of $995. its "dumb terminal" nickname came from some of the original trade publication advertisements." However, we have found that there were even earlier type of terminals that were even more "Dumb" than this ADM-3A. One of the...