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points by EvanAnderson 5 days ago | 0 comments

I'm talking more like the late 80s when I was giving my address info to clerks at Rat Shack who were typing it into some kind of green-screen app on what, if memory serves, kinda looked like a Wyse terminal.

[–] chasil 5 days ago

That could very well have been a Model 16 running Xenix 68k.

From memory, the two serial ports could run classic getty processes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRS-80_Model_II#model16

[–] EvanAnderson 5 days ago

Yep-- that's what I was getting at. I'd love it if somebody w/ real Tandy corporate experience appeared in this thread and discussed it... >smile<

Here's hoping for the power of Hacker News.

[–] chasil 4 days ago

Agreed, that would make the conversation quite lively.

Unfortunately, anyone who managed or worked on a curses app that relayed store sales data to a corporate database would need an exceptional memory in their retirement.