I am soooo old that I remember my dad bringing home a "computer" from the university ....
It had a scrolling paper print out for "display" and two cups in the back you put the phone headset in for the "modem"
"You are in a maze of twisty tunnels that all look alike"
We had Star Trek and you had to make the geometry calculations to say "fire at angle 315 degrees) to hit the klingons...
We had adventure .... "XYZZY" was you friend!!!!
WOMBAT hunt ...
My kids barely even believe that existed ... and wondered if I saw Dinosaurs outside the window at the same time...
THIS is what I remember ... WOW!
WikipediaThe Silent 700, introduced in 1971, was a line of portable computer terminals manufactured by Texas Instruments in the 1970s and 1980s. Silent 700s printed with a 5 x 7 dot-matrix heating element onto a roll of heat-sensitive paper. Some models were equipped with an integrated acoustic coupler and modem that could receive data at 30 characters per second. Other models could be directly connected to computers at 300 bits/second (bps), and were sometimes used as the System console where a hard copy record of the activities would be retained for a period of time.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silent_700