That's a very interesting page! I've bookmarked it for further perusal. Thanks for sharing.
Something that drove me crazy in the late-'80s/early-'90s: office settings in TV shows. They'd clearly be using Wyse terminals, which I was
very familiar with--even had one in my office at home, connected by modem, on a dedicated phone line, to the SCO Xenix server in my office at work. And guess what? Not a cable in sight! These were
dumb terminals, but not an RS232 cable to be seen hanging from the ports on their backs. Same with the [dot-matrix] printers that were often shown humming along, printing, next to a
dumb terminal, magically, with no cabling! I'd literally shout at the TV, 'where the [blank] are the [blanking] cables?!'