{"id":25106,"date":"2026-06-22T14:40:48","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T18:40:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/?page_id=25106"},"modified":"2026-06-22T15:16:37","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T19:16:37","slug":"texas-instruments-silent-700","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/vintage-computing\/item\/texas-instruments-silent-700\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Instruments Silent 700"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Texas Instruments Silent 700\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                                    \n\n<p>[Vin204]<\/p>\n\n\n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button is-style-fill\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/vintage-computing\/item\">Vintage Computing Collection<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The Texas Instruments Silent 700 was a line of portable&nbsp;<strong>data<\/strong>&nbsp;terminals, not a standalone computer, best known for making quiet, suitcase\u2011style remote access to mainframes and time\u2011sharing systems practical over ordinary telephone lines in the 1970s. Its claim to fame was combining an integrated acoustic\u2011coupler modem, solid\u2011state thermal printing (the \u201csilent\u201d 5\u00d77 dot\u2011matrix head), and reasonable cost into a highly popular, rugged device that traveling \u201croad warriors\u201d and professionals could carry to dial into remote computers from homes, hotels, or offices long before laptops or CRT terminals were common.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Manufacturer<\/strong>: Texas Instruments<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Type<\/strong>: Portable Electronic Data terminal, keyboard\u2011and\u2011printer terminals with serial and\/or acoustic\u2011coupler modem interfaces<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Release Date<\/strong>: 1971<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Cost at release<\/strong>: ~$12,000 adjusted for inflation<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Donated by<\/strong>: Dr. Arlen Michaels<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"769\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/260\/2026\/06\/texas700-1024x769.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-25158\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/260\/2026\/06\/texas700-1024x769.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/260\/2026\/06\/texas700-512x384.jpg 512w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/260\/2026\/06\/texas700-320x240.jpg 320w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/260\/2026\/06\/texas700-768x577.jpg 768w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/260\/2026\/06\/texas700-1536x1153.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/260\/2026\/06\/texas700-2048x1538.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button is-style-fill\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/vintage-computing\/item\">Vintage Computing Collection<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Texas Instruments Silent 700 was a line of portable&nbsp;data&nbsp;terminals, not a standalone computer, best known for making quiet, suitcase\u2011style remote access to mainframes and time\u2011sharing systems practical over ordinary telephone lines in the 1970s. Its claim to fame was combining an integrated acoustic\u2011coupler modem, solid\u2011state thermal printing (the \u201csilent\u201d 5\u00d77 dot\u2011matrix head), and reasonable [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":0,"parent":19704,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_cu_dining_location_slug":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_page_type":[90,123,131],"class_list":["post-25106","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","cu_page_type-vintage-computing","cu_page_type-vintage-inventory","cu_page_type-vintage-misc"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/25106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25106"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/25106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25171,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/25106\/revisions\/25171"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_page_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_page_type?post=25106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}