{"id":278,"date":"2007-02-25T21:05:15","date_gmt":"2007-02-26T02:05:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/?p=278"},"modified":"2007-02-26T13:26:30","modified_gmt":"2007-02-26T18:26:30","slug":"retro-scan-of-the-week-gte-personal-data-terminal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/278\/retro-scan-of-the-week-gte-personal-data-terminal","title":{"rendered":"<span id=\"retro_color\">Retro Scan of the Week:<\/span> GTE ActionStation XT300"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/gte_term_large.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/gte_term_smaller.jpg\" alt=\"GTE XT300 Terminal\" class=\"alignright\" \/><\/a>Haven&#8217;t you always wanted your very own personal desktop information terminal?  With a 9&#8243; monochrome monitor?  That requires a $15-an-hour text-only information service to use to its fullest?  For the same price as a full-fledged PC?  Neither did anybody else, and that&#8217;s why it was on clearance in 1986.<\/p>\n<p>The XT300 ActionStation came with &#8220;$15.00 of free usage&#8221; for CompuServe, which, according to the catalog, &#8220;will vary between 1 and 2 hours&#8221; of connect time &#8220;depending on when it&#8217;s used.&#8221;  This makes the old &#8220;100 Hours Free!&#8221; AOL offer look like a bargain!<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s some more info on the GTE XT300, from <em>Communication News<\/em>, February 1985:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>GTE&#8217;s XT300 ActionStation combines an ASCII terminal with build-in modem and nine-inch high-resolution screen with a full-feature electronic telephone, speaker phone and large-capacity speed dialer. The ActionStation&#8217;s two-line capability allows simultaneously voice and data transmission, and the unit provides access to a wide range of data transmission and retrieval services, including GTE&#8217;s Telemail electronic mail service and online public data-base services. A personal directory permits storage of 50 names and telephone numbers, and eight computer sign-on procedures. It also stores 12 frequently used commands, report names and data file names of up to 36 characters.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>[ Scanned from a COMB Catalog, ca. 1986 ]<\/em><\/p>\n<p><small><em>If you use this image on your site, please support &#8220;Retro Scan of the Week&#8221; by giving us obvious credit for the original scan and entry.  Thanks.<\/em><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Haven&#8217;t you always wanted your very own personal desktop information terminal? With a 9&#8243; monochrome monitor? That requires a $15-an-hour text-only information service to use to its fullest? For the same price as a full-fledged PC? Neither did anybody else, and that&#8217;s why it was on clearance in 1986. The XT300 ActionStation came with &#8220;$15.00 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-info-and-history","category-retro-scan-of-the-week"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}