When I was working for the Los Angeles Times editorial department, IBM PCs were just becoming a thing. Editorial publishing systems were based on proprietary architecture, very expensive, and there was nothing portable about them. The Times had recently purchased the SII System 55 which used Tandem servers and Coyote desktop terminals. As a smart terminal each Coyote cost thousands of dollars. I wanted to figure out a way to emulate the functions of the Coyote using much lower cost and portable PCs. Using the programming language ‘C’, I developed an extensive DOS based communications program that did a good job of performing most of the functions of the Coyote on a IBM PC platform. As is typical in computer technology, about the time I completed the program, SII came out with a plug-in board for the IBM PC at a much lower cost than the coyote. Here is the one and only manual for NewsTalk written in 1994 by a couple of my colleagues, Doug Cox and Lisa Loomis.