Blast from the Past
As many of you know, part of my gig here at UK is to manage the Interlibrary Loan operations for the law library. And by “manage”, I mean do it all. It’s a lot of work, but I enjoy most of it. And occasionally, it reaps some fun rewards.
Today I pulled and copied an article from Trial Magazine. As I was flipping through it, my eye was caught by an advertisement. BEHOLD, THE FUTURE OF LEGAL RESEARCH (um, circa 1982)
Some time, when I have the time, I’d love to go through all of our back issues of practitioner magazines and scan in these old adverts and post them on the web.
Great find! I’d only heard rumors of these mysterious “LEXIS terminals” (always in caps). Also interesting to see that looseleaf binder design is unchanged in almost 30 years.
The dedicated terminals were marginally more acceptible than the next step, lame overlays for our keyboards
And, as always, I love to bring up QWIK and QWOK indexes. modems. dialogue and eric, the only databases… like that.
Ahh, the old UBIQ terminal! I know a few places that still have one in the back of a storage room.
Ms. Glassmeyer,
I’m working on a history of Lexis-Nexis. Could I impose on you for a jpg or pdf copy of the Trial magazine ad?
Thanks,
Will Bagley
The Prairie Dog Press
I find the more I find out, the more I need to find out.–Dale L. Morgan