These were big ticket at one time, but it does look like it was just a keyboard and a screen - if you wanted to make it do anything you had to plug something in.
Yes, I've been in one of these queues! There is a man with a sign showing arriving punters where it starts... once they start moving though, a block of people march forward a certain distance and stop. It's very disciplined!
My question is answered! Even so, my first digicam was an Olympus C1000L, less than one megapixel and equivalent 50-120 zoom, and a yellow colour cast. I went back to film.
