2014.02.21 13:43, Tipo, User'is rašė:
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iš http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/tv-typewriters.html

Here is a true story about a glass tty: One day an MIT hacker was in a 
motorcycle accident and broke his leg. He had to stay in the hospital 
quite a while, and got restless because he couldn't hack. Two of his 
friends therefore took a terminal and a modem for it to the hospital, so 
that he could use the computer by telephone from his hospital bed.

Now this happened some years before the spread of home computers, and 
computer terminals were not a familiar sight to the average person. When 
the two friends got to the hospital, a guard stopped them and asked what 
they were carrying. They explained that they wanted to take a computer 
terminal to their friend who was a patient.

The guard got out his list of things that patients were permitted to 
have in their rooms: TV, radio, electric razor, typewriter, tape player, 
.... no computer terminals. Computer terminals weren't on the list, so 
the guard wouldn't let it in. Rules are rules, you know. (This guard was 
clearly a droid.)

Fair enough, said the two friends, and they left again. They were 
frustrated, of course, because they knew that the terminal was as 
harmless as a TV or anything else on the list... which gave them an idea.

The next day they returned, and the same thing happened: a guard stopped 
them and asked what they were carrying. They said: “This is a TV 
typewriter!” The guard was skeptical, so they plugged it in and 
demonstrated it. “See? You just type on the keyboard and what you type 
shows up on the TV screen.” Now the guard didn't stop to think about how 
utterly useless a typewriter would be that didn't produce any paper 
copies of what you typed; but this was clearly a TV typewriter, no doubt 
about it. So he checked his list: “A TV is all right, a typewriter is 
all right ... okay, take it on in!”

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