{"id":613,"date":"2009-11-30T12:40:39","date_gmt":"2009-11-30T17:40:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/?p=613"},"modified":"2009-11-30T13:10:01","modified_gmt":"2009-11-30T18:10:01","slug":"retro-scan-of-the-week-terminal-innuendo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/613\/retro-scan-of-the-week-terminal-innuendo","title":{"rendered":"<span id=\"retro_color\">[ Retro Scan of the Week ]<\/span> Terminal Innuendo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/soroc_terminals_large.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/soroc_terminals_small.jpg\" alt=\"Soroc Terminal IQ 120 IQ 140 Ad - 1979\" class=\"centered\" \/><\/a><span class=\"freecaption\"><em>Computer shopping in the <a href=\"http:\/\/images.google.com\/images?hl=en&#038;source=hp&#038;q=fortress of solitude\" target=\"_blank\">Fortress of Solitude<\/a>.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>In this ad for the SOROC IQ 120 and IQ 140 terminals, we see a woman who clearly wants to interface with something &#8212; but what?  Very few peripherals understand the cryptic FAJI\/NA protocol (Female Anatomical Jiggy Interface \/ Network Access).  Even with the proper connector and hardware handshaking, those few who succeed in uploading might end up with a virus.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, I get it&#8230;they&#8217;re talking about the terminals.  Nothing to see here.  Move along. Move along.<\/p>\n<p><center><em><small>[ From Byte Magazine, November 1979 ]<\/small><\/em><\/center><\/p>\n<p><strong>Discussion Topic of the Week:<\/strong> Have you ever regularly used a text-based terminal to get serious work done?  Tell us about it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Computer shopping in the Fortress of Solitude. In this ad for the SOROC IQ 120 and IQ 140 terminals, we see a woman who clearly wants to interface with something &#8212; but what? Very few peripherals understand the cryptic FAJI\/NA protocol (Female Anatomical Jiggy Interface \/ Network Access). Even with the proper connector and hardware [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,24,27,26,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-info-and-history","category-humor","category-regular_features","category-retro-scan-of-the-week","category-computers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613","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=613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}