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To: aladin who wrote (101224)	2/19/2005 11:34:00 PM
From: Snowshoe	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793669

The VT05 came out in 1970, but it was crude... vt100.net

To: aladin who wrote (101224)	2/20/2005 7:35:38 AM
From: John Carragher	Respond to of 793669

exxon was not the quickest company to adopt new technology. they kind of liked to keep things as they are. vs risk new ideas.

To: aladin who wrote (101224)	2/20/2005 9:41:13 AM
From: Mary Cluney	Respond to of 793669

CRT's were introduced in 1974 about the time you worked for Exxon. Given that Exxon was very advanced technically and was the wealthiest company of that era - you probably did use them in '74 or '75. This is purely from memory. IBM introduced the IBM model 360 computer in 1964 and IBM model 370 in 1969. In the lated 1960's Univac, Burroughs, and Control Data were also in the business of manufacturing mainframe computers. By the late 1960's computer usage was widespread. Major Airlines all had their own airline reservation systems as well as all banks including very small neighborhood savings banks had computers maintaining customer and bank account information. General Electric had a Time Sharing Network where smaller business (a lot of small mom and pop financial advisors rented terminals for financial applications - and also online games could be played - they had a crude footfall game where you could call the play and random number generators were used to simulate the outcome of each play - and you could play a whole game that way by yourself or with an online partner somewhere else) could rent terminals, write programs, and execute programs via Time sharing mode. When IBM came out with the 3270 terminal in 1972 - it was an instant success. It replaced a lot of the really dumb terminals. The 3270 was the first full screen processor. meaning you could fill out the whole screent and then press enter. Before that CRT's were much dumber. By 1974 our own Kholt was using a 3270 (my guess) to write her own interactive program at the pentagon. Relatively speaking she was a pioneer - but even then there were tens of thousnads of programmers writing programs using the 3270 terminals. I would make a huge wager (by my standards) that Exxon (or was it ESSO at the time) had thousands of these terminals around the globe by 1974.