It’s the secret area of Battlezone, if you make it all the way to the volcano.
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I used that terminal.
It was cool, in a ‘70s sort of way. It could only be written to - to erase a line, the entire screen had to be erased, with an impressive flash.
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Now that you mention it, I used to have a Tek scope with a storage tube, and you’re right about the flash. I’m assuming with the computer, erasing was handled automatically, but the scope had a three-position switch for normal or storage modes and erasing.
He’s a Transpondster. He’s doing statistical analysis and data reconfiguration.
That’s what we had for porn in those days, and we were glad to have it!
So I wasn’t the only one who noticed the how the two lines wiggle snicker then get closer together titter. Ah, the good old days.
Yep, still remember buying my first external hard drive for $1800…a whopping 30 MB. it was like a religious experience not having to swap floppies or tapes any more. And 4 MB of RAM for $1200 at a trade show…big discount!
I remember trying to explain to people what happened when you turned on an old Apple ][e without anything in the disk drive…nothing. Nothing at all happened. It just turned on. If you didn’t have the side power switch with the fan mounted in it, I don’t even think it made any noise.
You wouldn’t expect it to be able to draw two different graphs for that sort of money, would you? 
They do beep after you turn them on, assuming all is well.
If there’s no disk drive attached at all, then you’re dropped immediately into the BASIC interpreter. If there is a disk drive, but it’s empty, then the computer keeps trying to read track #0 over and over in order to boot from it — and only stops when you press the RESET key (or shut off the power).
er…April 1976.
It says it on the OP’s link.
He’s modelling. You know, for a promotional photograph. Just like today, nothing sold office equipment like a side parting and a class ring in 1976.
In 30 years, perhaps sooner, the snarkiness here will be minuscule compared to the snarkiness thrown towards us…
Carpe diem, posse.
I’ll go with financial, because as pointed out, the bottom axis text appears to be months. If it was numbers vs. numbers graph, it might have been engineering or process management.
Considering how much fanfold 17" paper I wasted on a selectric typeball terminal playing Star Trek in 1975, having graphics on a screen was a huge step forward. Having a terminal capable of displaying 80 characters across instead of the weanie 40 on an Apple II or a Commodore Pet or 64characters IIRC on TRS80 - well that put this Textronic in the big boy business leagues.
I would assume that the graph on the screen was developed by one of the Tektronix programmers at the direction of the marketing department.
I worked on those terminals when I was in college in the late 1970s. I did graphing software for the physics department for FFT (Fast Fourier Transform) based analysis. Generally, I didn’t have that much text on the screen, though.
Ah yes, Moore’s law of snarkiness.
I think it’s the WENUS.
What?
Weekly End Net Use Statistics. What did you think it meant?
Roddy
Looking at that picture, my train of thought was:
- Oh, he’s sitting at the computer, using a mouse.
- Hang on, this is pre-mouse. He doesn’t have a mouse.
- Isn’t it spooky how his pose is mouse-y, even though this is pre-mouse?
- But it’s not spooky; they must have designed mice so that you hold them naturally.
- I’m surprised he doesn’t have a light pen.
- That ring he’s wearing would leave a nasty dent if he punched you in the face.
- Then he’d stab you in the eyes with the pencil.
Tektronix still exist, and still seem to be based in Beaverton, Oregon:
http://www.tek.com/careers-interviewing/campus-map
My class ring looks just like his! I hadn’t noticed until you pointed this out.
And, um, maybe consider decaf.