Foone🏳️⚧️
Here's a weird question: so Dynix made a text-based library catalog system that used Wyse terminals, and they shipped them with custom keyboards. They had four keys above the numpad: one of these keys was Start Over/New Search.
Does anyone remember having used these terminals, and recall what those other keys were?
Foone🏳️⚧️
Dynix is this system:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynix_(software)
The menu system looked like this:
Foone🏳️⚧️
And I've looked through all the pictures I can find of it and they're all like this: showing the keyboard, but cropped before you can see the buttons on the right.
Foone🏳️⚧️
Here's a picture of the keyboard from a non-Dynix Wyse WY-30 terminal: you can see there's 4 function keys on top of the numpad. Those were customized for the Dynix version.
Foone🏳️⚧️
@pearl yeah, sadly none of the manuals I can find list the keyboards. They were optional, so they probably came with some documentation, but I don't have it
asyncmeow (pearl)
@foone I’m guessing this is something you would have checked already, but are there manuals for the software? if there are, maybe the manual shows what the other buttons are (or at least mentions them?)
Jesse Santangelo
@foone I remember using something like this! I don't know if it was this exact system though.
I was thinking about this style of menu system a couple of weeks ago. This is what I want search engines to look like. I was considering writing my own text interface for them. (How hard could it be?)
Foone🏳️⚧️
@SpuriousInterrupt oh that'd be a neat thing! I'd love to see web search results in this style
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