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On 2015-04-02, Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com> wrote:

> Well, let's not forget about having the word "login:" burned into the
> screen too.  Me, I always turned mine off when I left for the day. 
> Everyone else tho, they could see their login prompt all the time, just
> in a slightly different color.  o_-

Except there was the time that IT told everbody to _stop_ turning
their terminals off at night because the daily power cycling was
killing the power supplies in the terminals (VT220 and VT240, IIRC).

By that point, I think the terminals may have had a screen saving
feature...

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