Comment by whalesalad
7 hours ago
I remember going to the Pasadena Public Library as a kid (90s) and there were terminals everywhere for interfacing with the digital card catalog system. Pretty sure they were made by Digital/DEC. The black screens with orange glowing text were such a pleasure to play around with. I've been thinking it would be fun to have one of these in my house 24x7 to interface with a Home Assistant TUI.
Was it Dynix by chance?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynix_%28software%29
I struggle to remember myself... but I found this earlier today:
"The years of 1995 and 1996 brought many technological improvements to the Library including the addition of InfoTrac SearchBank, a computerized magazine and newspaper index; ADVANCE, a new Unix-based online library catalog; public access to the Internet with terminals at all library locations;"
ADVANCE: https://librarytechnology.org/document/4772
InfoTrac: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/InfoTrac