[Andrew Curtin] tipped us off to another excellent resurrected vintage one piece ADM-3A dumb terminal ... makes it appear more like a standalone computer for the first time in its life.

A single IMP connected to one computer wasn’t much of a network. So it was very exciting in September 1969 when IMP-1 was ...

There is no sign of a display yet, instead the computer communicates via a dumb terminal. We love the aluminum foil for shielding! Check out the video, below, to see what we mean.

Access to the computer is via "dumb terminals," which send only input and receive output or "smart terminals," which add screen formatting. All data processing is performed in the central computer.

A medium-sized computer system or server ... Formerly called "minicomputers," which were hosts to dumb terminals connected over dedicated cables, most midrange computers today function as servers ...