His wife, who by this time was feeling particularly neglected because of this obsession which she didn't understand, walked into the room one morning around 3 AM and saw her husband furiously programming. Mind you, this was not said in a complimentary way. She accused the Terminal Man of being physically attached to his terminal, and perhaps emotionally attached as well. Once, when he used 20,000 units on his telephone in one month, the local phone company tried to track him down and reclassify his phone as a business phone. The story could easily end here, but then you would wonder why he spent so much time telling this story.
Life takes strange and unpredictable turns.
A key turning point in the Terminal Man's computer life was in 1988, when he experienced his first taste of windows on his home terminal. This was provided via a GraphOn serial X terminal and a 9600 Baud Microcom modem. Since this time, he has traveled around the world preaching the virtues of this configuration as the ultimate home terminal. Great performance, no maintenance or system administration headaches - life was sweet and the Terminal Man was happy. The Televideo terminal was a distant memory.