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Grant Edwards wrote: |
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> On 2015-04-02, Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>> Well, let's not forget about having the word "login:" burned into the |
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>> screen too. Me, I always turned mine off when I left for the day. |
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>> Everyone else tho, they could see their login prompt all the time, just |
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>> in a slightly different color. o_- |
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> Except there was the time that IT told everbody to _stop_ turning |
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> their terminals off at night because the daily power cycling was |
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> killing the power supplies in the terminals (VT220 and VT240, IIRC). |
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> By that point, I think the terminals may have had a screen saving |
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> feature... |
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Well, we was the service dept so that didn't matter much. It did matter |
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when we had to replace the whole terminal because the CRT was burnt. |
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Some folks were bad to leave theirs logged in which ruined pretty much |
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the whole screen. Some had to since logging out would also stop print |
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jobs. Not long before I left, they finally had a print spooler so that |
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logging off didn't matter. Long story. |
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Those were the days tho. lol |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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