Teletypes. Many early computer systems were connected to teletypes as terminals.
I cut my my teeth playing SUMER and programming Fortran on a VAX over an all caps teletype with an attached paper-tape punch/reader and on a good day I got to use one of the decwriters (a dot matrix printer-terminal.
The vector screens (Tektronic?) were always in use by the engineering students, and I was just an 8 year old logging in on my moms account lol.
Sumer! I translated a printout of Sumer my buddy acquired somewhere into the BASIC for RT-11 and played it quite a lot back in the late '70's. Almost nobody I know has ever heard of it.
I cut my my teeth playing SUMER and programming Fortran on a VAX over an all caps teletype with an attached paper-tape punch/reader and on a good day I got to use one of the decwriters (a dot matrix printer-terminal.
The vector screens (Tektronic?) were always in use by the engineering students, and I was just an 8 year old logging in on my moms account lol.