I cannot believe that I might have just found it!
Anyone ever hear of a Genesis One G-77?
On a whim, I decided to (once again) Browse Al Kossow's glorious Magazine archive of Mini-Micro Systems, I came across this on the first mag in that list!
And NOW that I can Google something meaningful (Genesis One G-77), that leads me to THIS!
"The Genesis One G77 Display Terminal and G Series Printers are interchangeable replacements for the IBM 3277 Model 2 Display Station and IBM 3284, 3286, and 3288 Printers, respectively"
Well, looks like Universal Studios strangely DID have some basis in reality when they choose to grab an IBM 3277 Terminal to gut and shove a studio display monitor into, and then paired it with the Genesis One G77 keyboard! Surely not functional in real life, but the two terminals are clearly related! I guess sometimes truth really can be even stranger than fiction!
Digging deeper, Genesis ONE is listed in this Wiki article as a 1971 subsidiary of MAI Systems Corp, along with Basic/Four, but it is unclear if this is the same Genesis One, as it states that they "bought and sold obsolete equipment", which doesn't sound as sophisticated as making IBM 3277 terminal replacements... But MAI WAS involved in doing something with making IBM-compatible equipment, so maybe?
Well...digging deeper yet, a newspaper article from Oct 19, 1972 shows and ad for Basic/Four listing Genesis One as the business contact, so in context and timeframe, it certainly looks as if the MAI reference is indeed one and the same Genesis One!
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