[Andrew Curtin] tipped us off to another excellent resurrected vintage one piece ADM-3A dumb terminal ... makes it appear more like a standalone computer for the first time in its life.

Inspired by the good old days when your computer would boot directly into ... Being essentially just a dumb terminal (hence the name), there’s actually not a lot of hardware on the board.

A medium-sized computer system or server ... Formerly called "minicomputers," which were hosts to dumb terminals connected over dedicated cables, most midrange computers today function as servers ...

Access to the computer is via "dumb terminals," which send only input and receive output or "smart terminals," which add screen formatting. All data processing is performed in the central computer.