11. "I'm trying to get on the Internet but I can't get my dumb terminal to work," 12. Detwiler does not accept IBM XTs, Apple IIs, nonworking monitors or keyboards, dumb terminals or mainframes. 13. This also meant that devices with no processor, like dumb terminals , could enjoy an error-free link. 14. Dumb terminals are those that can interpret a limited number of control codes ( ANSI escape sequences.15. A dumb terminal connected to the first serial port then became an inexpensive diskless word processing station. 16. In that arrangement, users sat in front of so-called dumb terminals connected to a mini or mainframe. 17. Its'Dumb Terminal 'nickname came from some of the original trade publication ads, and quickly caught on industry wide. 18. Since these dumb terminals did not host software or perform computations themselves, they were not considered hosts. 19. This configuration of a centralized computer or mainframe with remote dumb terminals remained popular throughout the 1950s. 20. The original purpose was to connect low-speed dumb terminals to a central time sharing host in Toronto.
