My friend Jack built this terminal out of bits and pieces back in the late 1970's, more or less. If memory serves, it had a resolution of 1024 by 768. Of course, it was a monochrome green screen. A new one from Tektronix cost around 14 grand, which makes it about as much as pretty nice new car, or two. This was just a terminal mind you, not a computer. Just a display and a keyboard. It communicated with the (Master Control) computer over a serial link running at the then astounding rate of 9600 baud.
That was speedy indeed. (Our terminaux at work were hard-pressed to do much more than 300 baud.)
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