An ADM-3a terminal displaying a stamp in the text adventure game Zork.

During my early university years, the ADM-3a was the ubiquitous display terminal. It was cheap, I guess. I don't think I ever came across a DEC (Digital Equipment Corp) VT52 or VT100, the terminal models that almost all other brands of terminal (or, later […]

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ADM-3A

🦕🖥️ The Lear Siegler ADM-3A terminal (1976) looks like it's straight out of The Flintstones 😃 We received it 12 years ago from the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, and it dates back to the times before the influential VT100 terminal.

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