Re: Missed It By That Much

On Apr 23, 12:26=A0pm, "Nobody in particular" <nob...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> "James Nicoll" <jdnic...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > In article
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> > <ncwa...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> >>Another Clarke prediction, this time from _The Lost Worlds of 2001_ .
> >>Once section features some-one receiving what can be best described as
> >>an e-mail (text message delivered to a terminal). =A0For some reason,
> >>however, he describes the message automatically being printed out on
> >>paper as soon as it was received (more like a telex, I guess) rather
> >>than being stored and viewed on a monitor. =A0This is particularly
> >>jarring since the person receiving the e-mail is on a space****p in
> >>orbit around Mars, where he might find it difficult to get more paper
> >>should he happen to run out.
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> > One of Poul Anderson's books (Don't recall the title: the one
> > about an alien from Sigma Draconis dropping by) has something like the
> > WWW that is also limited to printed output.
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> Not so far-fetched. =A0My mother, for example, prints *everything* out.

I remember using a terminal with a dot matrix printer as the only
output.  This was in the late 1970s.

On the other hand, didn't original Trek have some sort of data output
on monitors?

When did computer monitors arise, both in fiction and in reality?