Text Terminal
The QMC Text Terminal was the best project that I worked on during my time at QMC, probably because so many people people worked on the project and because of the many spin-offs.
A new text-handling display system (the QMC text terminal) is described. Its main features are the ability to subdivide the screen into pages and a colour display. In this way, the user is able to consult a number of pages at one time, extract them, update them and file them. This represents a step towards the ‘electronic desk’. Abstract from QMC Text Terminal (1979).
These pictures were taken by Mik Lamming in 1978; I think that I have the originals. Note the various input devices: keyboard, joystick, mouse, extra keypad and cigarette lighter (on the left of the keyboard). The little white box on the far left housed the controls for the display processor; which together with the MUT were under the large Barco TV studio monitor.
Text Terminal Papers
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Highly dynamic text display system
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PCs in Offices of the Future
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