Whenever researchers needed to build a model or display results graphically, they had to go to another office housing the
graphics terminal. If they were lucky, they didn't have to wait in line.
Options for the LBS-8 include a large remote display and touch-sensitive high-resolution
graphics terminal which can display trending graphs and combinations of bar-graph and character displays.
Both types of data would appear on a
graphics terminal plugged into the Remex shop terminal.
If most of your communication is done with DEC computers and you need a
graphics terminal like the VT125, this is the program for you.
"We had been using a single synchronous link for each remote
graphics terminal and a separate asynchronous line for printers and plotters," Ross reports.