Terminal

For terminal entries, see Terminal entry.

A terminal is an electronic device that is used to interface with various computers, such as those programmed for controlling turrets, opening safes and doors, storing information, and activating robots and other special equipment. Some terminals have been rigged as traps. The operating system of a terminal is the Unified Operating System, published by RobCo Industries. Some terminals function autonomously, like bulky laptops (e.g.: Doctor Lesko's portable terminal); while others are dumb, i.e. they use the computer mainframe which they are connected to for processing and data storage. The typical terminal has a keyboard for typing commands and a monochromatic monitor for displaying data.

Fallout and Fallout 2

The terminals in Fallout and Fallout 2 can be used with the Science skill if it's high enough. In Fallout it is also possible to exploit back doors in computers to gain access, such as playing a game of 21.

Fallout 3, Fallout: New Vegas, Fallout 4 and Fallout 76

Fallout 3, Fallout: New Vegas, Fallout 4 and Fallout 76 share a common terminal gameplay mechanic, with differences noted later.

Purpose of terminals

Terminals are generally used to find information about a particular quest or character. This information may be usable in some practical way, or it may be for background and atmosphere.

Controlling defense systems

Each of the three games features some interaction with a terminal and a defense system. Each game lets you deactivate any attached turret or defense system. Fallout 3 and New Vegas also feature terminals that control turret targeting: if targeting is disabled, the turret will shoot at everyone within range, not just the player.

In each game, there are more specialized version of this. For example, in Fallout 3 in the Robot Repair Center there is a terminal that can set off a pulse explosion disabling every robot in the area. There is also one in Fort Constantine that launches the fort's ICBM if the player has the Fort Constantine launch codes (the launch appears to be abortive). There is also one in SatCom Array NW-05a that allows the player to launch a nuclear strike from the Highwater Trousers orbital weapons platform, though the nukes are relatively small and there is no way to aim them (they explode harmlessly some distance from the player).

In addition, all games but in particular Fallout 3 and 4 feature terminals that can be used to open a protectron holding container, gaining a potential ally for upcoming firefights (though the protectron can still turn on you for various reasons, depending on the game). Fallout 4 also lets you install different personalities into the Protectron, which change its dialogue and behavior.

In Fallout 4, terminals can be built at settlements in Workshop mode, as long as the player has at least 1 rank in the Hacker perk. These terminals can then be connected to other electrical objects such as lights and speakers to provide additional control options.

Opening doors and safes

Terminals are commonly used to open safes, giving an alternative to lockpicking the safe. To get maximum XP, you can pick a lock first, then hack the terminal which would have unlocked it. You could also hack the terminal but not unlock the safe/door etc. before exiting and then lockpicking it.

Terminals are also sometimes used to unlock or open doors; an example is the terminal used in the Fallout 3 Tenpenny Tower quest to let ghouls in from the Metro.

Secured terminals

Most terminals are secured. To access them you either need

A password.
A high enough Science skill (Fallout 3/New Vegas) or Hacker perk rank to hack them.
An encryption key.

Usually only one or two of these options are available.

Passwords

Terminal Password — Terminal password, in the *Notes* section of your Pip-Boy.

There are various ways of getting a password to a terminal. The two most common ways to get a password are that someone tells you the password or that you find an item describing the password, such as a holotape.

Hacking terminals

Hacking in *Fallout 3* and *Fallout: New Vegas*
Terminal level	Science skill requirement	Password length	XP reward
Very Easy	15	4-5	20
Easy	25	6-8	30
Average	50	9-10	40
Hard	75	11-12	50
Very Hard	100	13-15	60

Hacking in Fallout 4
Terminal level	Hacker perk requirement	Password length
Novice	0	4-5
Advanced	1	6-8
Expert	2	9-10
Master	3	11-12

One way to deal with secured terminals is to hack them—if you can. This works only under the following conditions:

The terminal is hackable.
In Fallout 3/New Vegas: your Science skill is high enough to hack the terminal. You will need 100 in Science (base or adjusted; see below) to even attempt to hack a "very hard" terminal.
In Fallout 4: whether you have enough ranks in the Hacker perk to hack the terminal. Novice terminals can be hacked by anyone. If the player's skill isn't high enough, companion Nick Valentine can be ordered to hack the terminal instead.
In Fallout 76: whether your hacking skill is high enough to hack the terminal. The hacking skill is increased by one for each unique hacking perk card equipped: Hacker, Expert Hacker, and Master Hacker. To unlock terminals requiring a hacking skill of 3, all three perk cards must be equipped at the same time. Equipping duplicates of a perk card does not increase your hacking skill.

In Fallout 3/New Vegas, there are items to help boost your science skill; e.g. the Vault 101 lab jumpsuit, the vault lab uniform, The Surgeon's lab coat, and most types of scientist outfit that can be found later in the game (with the exception of Doctor Li's outfit) will add +5 to your Science skill. Lesko's lab coat adds +10.

Hacking a terminal yields XP, depending on the difficulty level of the terminal.

The hacking game is similar to Mastermind, a board game. You will be presented with a list of words, all of the same character length, interposed with random characters. The length of the words is determined by the difficulty of the lock. The number of words you get is determined by how high your Science skill is (for Fallout 3 or New Vegas) or how high your Intelligence is (for Fallout 4). One of the words is the correct password, and your goal is to guess it.

You choose a word by clicking on it. If you didn't guess correctly, the terminal will display "x/y correct" where x is the number of correct letters, and y is the word length. A letter is correct only if it is in the right spot. For example, if the password is "RELEASED" and you choose "DETECTOR" then you will be told that there are 2/8 correct because there are 'E's in the 2nd and 4th place for both. The words have other letters in common, like 'R', but it is in the first spot in one word, and the last in the other. You have four attempts to select the correct password: if you fail, in Fallout 3/New Vegas you will be permanently locked out; however, if you have the Computer Whiz perk, you will get another try. In Fallout 4, you will only temporarily be locked out, for ten seconds; the maximum rank of Hacker will remove even this lockout.

There are also things you can do with the characters that are not part of words. Clicking on matching brackets (i.e. () [] {} <>, even with other characters between, but not a whole word between) can remove a dud password or reset the number of remaining guesses to four. The brackets must be of the same type and on the same line. Although you cannot match brackets with a whole word between them, you can match brackets separated by the dots that appear when a dud word is removed ( <.......> ). Also, two or more opening brackets can be matched to a single closing bracket ("[ [ ]" on a line gives you two chances), but the opposite is not true ("[ ] ]" only gives you one chance). When you scroll across this type of entry from left-to-right, the entire entry will be highlighted letting you know if you've found one or not.

Previous choices are displayed on the right-hand side of the terminal.

To get to the hacking mini-game quickly, you can click the startup screen on the terminal to skip to the next screen. Click once more to load the hack screen instantly. (Note: in Fallout: New Vegas if you back out after your first hack attempt prior to "locking" computer, you must wait even longer for the initial key in prior to the mini-game)

Terminal types specific to particular games

Fallout 3

Mothership Zeta terminals

There are terminals scattered around the alien ship Zeta, in the Mothership Zeta add-on. They are used by the aliens for security purposes, and with the required Science skill, ranging from 25 to 75 Science, you can hack them. There are a few choices available once hacked: Set it to blow up in a small amount of time, set a proximity charge, and unlock the door. These terminals can also be destroyed.

Encrypted terminals

Sometimes terminals have options that can't be used until you have the correct encryption key, and will be presented as gibberish.

An example of this are the terminals used by Chinese remnants in the Capital Wasteland - but the terminal encryption key is usually nearby.

Fallout: New Vegas terminals

Suspicious terminals

Several suspicious terminals can be found at H&H Tools Factory on the top floor. They are equipped with "Hidden Network Drives" that can be accessed through the player's Pip Boy.

Fallout 3 and New Vegas terminals

Trapped terminal

A terminal can also be a trap in disguise.

If triggered by activating the keyboard, the terminal will become electrified (not harming the player), and then the rigged frag grenade will detonate.

A trapped terminal has a broken rear, and a small antenna on the back, sending or receiving from an unknown location; see picture to the right. Also, all terminals with traps on them are plainly called "terminal," as with the normal "Click/press 'A'/'X' to Activate terminal."

Disarming a trapped terminal demands an Explosives skill of 45. In New Vegas, it requires a skill of 60. It is disarmed by activating the rear of the terminal rather than the front.

A frag grenade was used to create the trap, and you will get the one used to rig the terminal when you disarm it.

After disarming, these terminals cannot be used for anything except re-arming with any type of grenade, a fruitless gesture since it is not a trap any non-player character could spring. It is not possible to use these terminals for informational purposes.

Notes

Some terminal areas would suggest that the terminal has not been tampered with since pre-War times. Despite this, some password options will be "deathclaw" or some other select creatures in the Wastelands that have obviously come about through intense radiation exposure, this of course primarily being post-war, (The government did create a small number of deathclaws in secret) mutating them into what we see in Fallout. Therefore, obviously, making it highly unlikely for any civilian living during pre-War times to know what a deathclaw, or any creature for that matter, actually is.
Misspelled words occur multiple times across Fallout 3, New Vegas and 4. Average-difficulty Consoles in New Vegas contain at least two of the few misspellings, that being "LEUTENANT," instead of the correct "Lieutenant" and "CONQUORER" instead of the correct "Conqueror". The word Lieutenant is also misspelled again in Fallout 4, once more appearing as "LEUTENANT" upon Expert-difficulty terminals.
When selecting a bracketed quote to replenish your allowance or remove a dud, if there is only one selectable word left, it will have no effect and simply say, "Entry Denied."
As gameplay is completely stopped when you are hacking a terminal you can take the time out of gameplay to write all the choices down and compare the letters to figure out what is the correct choice. It is recommended to use at least one choice before doing this so you have a frame of reference.
If blood is splattered on a terminal, when you activate it, there will be a dark red box around the text that initially comes down.
In Fallout 4 an option "GURPS" can be found while hacking a terminal, which can be a reference to a Generic Universal Role Playing System, that was planned to be used in the original Fallout but was replaced by SPECIAL system.
Unlike in 3 or New Vegas, clicking a dud in Fallout 4 and Fallout 76 doesn't remove a chance from your allowance.

List of hackable terminals (Fallout 3)

For the Data Miner achievement/trophy, you need to find 50 terminals to hack.

Place (or closest map marker)	Location in place	Skill level	Purpose	How Many	Bad Karma?
Alexandria Arms	Second floor	Average	Unlocks door to storeroom	1	No
Arlington Library	Library lobby	Easy	Information	4	No
Arlington Library	Arlington Library Media Archive middle floor	Average	Turret control	4	No
Arlington Library	Arlington Library Media Archive top floor	Average	Turret control	4	No
Arlington Library	Arlington Library Media Archive top floor	Average	Unlocks safe	4	No
Anacostia Crossing station	Near Seward Square exit	Average	Protectron	1
Anchorage Memorial	At the top of the steps leading to the facility bay	Average	Unlock door	1
Bethesda Ruins	Bethesda Offices East	Average	Turret control	2
Bethesda Ruins	Bethesda Offices West	Average	Turret control	2
Capital Wasteland	Southeast of the Arlington Library at a Talon Company checkpoint	Average	Turret control	1
Capital Wasteland	Southeast of Flooded Metro on a bridge near a raider encampment	Average	Turret control	1
Citadel	In the clinic, Ring B	Very Hard	Information	3	Yes
Citadel	Squire Maxson's room, Ring B	Very Easy	Information	3
Citadel	Elder Lyons' room, Ring B	Very Hard	Information	3
Dunwich Building	Forsaken Dunwich Ruins	Easy	Story Infos	1
Dunwich Building	Forsaken Dunwich Ruins, second level, behind Average locked door	Easy	Story of a scavenger who holed himself up in the room waiting for a "Billy." His corpse and gear can be found at your feet.	1
Dupont Circle station	In the room before the cavern, behind a door	Average	Turret control	2
Dupont Circle station	Inside the first room to your right	Very Easy	Protectron robot control	2
Enclave Field Research: Crater Camp	Just west of Fort Bannister	Average	Information	1
Fairfax ruins	In the two-story hollowed-out building facing Vault 101 and Megaton	Average	Turret control	1
Fairfax ruins/Andale	In a concrete tree house between Fairfax ruins and Andale	Average	Turret control	1
Falls Church/Mason Dst Metro	Near the entrance of Franklin Metro Utility	Easy	Unlocks door	1
Farragut West station	Office near entrance	Very Easy	Protectron robot control	1
Foggy Bottom station	Near the entrance of Dupont Circle	Average	Protectron robot control	1
Fort Bannister	Fort Bannister bunker	Easy	Turret control system	3
Fort Bannister	Commanding officer's quarters	Average	Unlocks door	3
Fort Bannister	Commanding officer's quarters	Average	Turret control system	3
Fort Independence	Fort Independence, lower level	Average	Turret control system	2
Fort Independence	Fort Independence, lower level	Hard	Unlocks door	2
Franklin Metro Utility	Right after entering	Hard	Unlocks safe	2
Franklin Metro Utility	Below first room	Hard	Turret control	2
Germantown Police HQ	Ground floor	Very Hard	Unlocks jail cell doors	4
Germantown Police HQ	Ground floor	Very Hard	Unlocks contraband closet	4
Germantown Police HQ	Top floor	Hard	Information	4
Germantown Police HQ	Top floor	Easy	Unlocks safe	4
Grayditch	Recently built shack	Average	Information related to Those!	2
Grayditch	Brandice's house	Easy	Information	2
Greener Pastures Disposal Site	Offices	Average	Unlocks safe	1
Jefferson Memorial	Gift shop	Average	Turret Control System	1
Jefferson Memorial	Gift shop	Very Easy	Scribe Bigsley's terminal, only in Broken Steel	1
Jury Street Metro station	Jury St. tunnels	Very Easy	Unlocks safe	1
Little Lamplight	The Great Chamber, northwest corner	Average	Opens Vault 87 reactor door (see Joseph)	1
L.O.B. Enterprises	East wing, northwest corner	Very Hard	Info on unique pistol	1
Lucky's	Inside, on a counter	Hard	Unlocks scavenger's safe	1
Marigold station	Left of behind subway car near flashing light	Easy	Unlocks door	2
Marigold station	Dr. Lesko's office	Average	Unlocks access door and notes	2
MDPL mass relay station	Inside power station	Very Hard	Unlocks safe	1
MDPL-13 power station	Derelict power plant, inside upper office	Average	Unlocks safe	3
MDPL-13 power station	Derelict power plant, inside lower office	Hard	Turret control	3
MDPL-13 power station	Inside power substation, on desk	Hard	Unlocks safe	3
MDPL-16 power station	Power substation	Average	Unlocks safe	1
MDPL-21 power station	Power substation	Hard	Unlocks safe	1
Megaton	Children of Atom	Very Easy	Information	5	Yes
Megaton	Craterside Supply	Very Easy	Information	5	Yes
Megaton	Megaton armory	Hard	Deactivating Deputy Steel and Weld	5	Yes
Megaton	Moriarty's Saloon	Average	Information (finding out where dad went)	5	Yes
Megaton	The Brass Lantern	Very Easy	Information and unlocks safe	5	Yes
Meresti service tunnel	Robert's quarters	Very Hard	Information	1
Meresti Metro station	The Family's terminal	Very Hard	Information	3
Meresti Metro station	The Family's terminal #2	Very Hard	Information	3
Meresti Metro station	Vance's terminal	Very Hard	Information Unlock safe	3
Museum of History	Lower hall, top of staircase on right	Average	Turret control	2	No
Museum of History	Offices - Go left at the top of the stairs, then go left after the Very Hard door	Average	Turret control	2	No
Museum of Technology	Atrium, in the security station	Average	Turret control	4
Museum of Technology	West wing, in the security station	Average	Turret control	4
Museum of Technology	West wing, in the security station	Average	Information	4
Museum of Technology	West wing, in the planetarium control room	Easy	Unlocks planetarium exit door (if you have less than 50 lockpick and cant unlock it)	4
National Archives	Next to archives sub-basement door	Easy	Unlocks door	1
National Guard depot	Offices wing, behind a locked door (Average) on the other side of the wall (go up the stairs and down the other side) there is an unlocked door that goes to the same room	Average	Disable turrets	4	No
National Guard depot	Training wing	Average	Disable turrets	4	No
National Guard depot	National Guard depot	Average	Disable turrets (#1)	4	No
National Guard depot	National Guard depot	Average	Disable turrets (#2)	4	No
Northwest Seneca station	Inside grocer, on counter	Easy	Unlocks safe	1
Nuka-Cola plant	Southeast of Wasteland	Very Easy	Activating convoy belt for Nuka-Cola Quantums	2
Nuka-Cola plant	Storage and mixing vats	Very Easy	Activating security protectron	2
Olney Powerworks (Broken Steel Add-on)	Olney Powerworks	Very Hard	Unlocks door to tesla coil	2	No
Olney Powerworks (Broken Steel Add-on)	Olney Powerworks	Hard	Machine failsafe for electrical field around tesla coil	2	No
Our Lady of Hope Hospital	First floor	Average	Information (nurse station 01)	4
Our Lady of Hope Hospital	First floor, north	Average	Information (nurse station 02)	4
Our Lady of Hope Hospital	Inside entrance, near reception	Average	Turret control system	4
Our Lady of Hope Hospital	Second floor, dead end to the east	Average	Information (nurse station 03)	4
Outcast outpost	In Protector McGraw's chamber. (Operation: Anchorage)	Very Easy	Information	1
Paradise Falls	In Eulogy's Pad, on the table with the Speech bobblehead near the heart bed	Average	Used in quest Rescue from Paradise	1
Queen ant's hatchery	Accessed from Marigold station	Average	Use in quest Those!	1
Raven Rock	Level 1B, delivery terminal	Average	Unlocks cage #364	4
Raven Rock	Level 1B	Average	Disables force field	4
Raven Rock	Level 2C, same room as Bobblehead - Energy Weapons	Average	Disables force field	4
Raven Rock	Level 2B, room across from Anna Holt	Average	Disables force field	4
Red Racer factory	CEO Offices	Average	Disable chip broadcast	3
Red Racer factory	CEO Offices	Average	Surgeon's notes	3
Red Racer factory	CEO Offices	Average	Surgeon's notes & disable chip broadcast	3
Rivet City	Midship deck, Abraham Washington's room	Easy-Very Hard	Information	8	Yes
Rivet City	Midship deck, Seagrave Holmes's room	Average	Information	8	No
Rivet City	Bridge tower	Very Easy	Information	8	No
Rivet City	Bridge tower	Very Easy	Information	8	No
Rivet City	Upper deck, clinic	Average	Information	8	Yes
Rivet City	Upper deck, Doctor Li's room	Easy	Information	8	Yes
Rivet City	Upper deck, Bannon's room	Easy	Information	8	Yes
Rivet City	Upper deck, hotel lobby	Very Easy	Information	8	Yes
RobCo facility	Upper level, offices and cafeteria	Average	Robot control	1
Roosevelt Academy	Ground floor, admin office	Very Easy	Protectron	2
Roosevelt Academy	Ground floor, nurse office	Hard	Open safe	2
SatCom Array NN-03d	Tower C	Very Easy	Open door	1
SatCom Array NW-05a	Southeast of Raven Rock	Average	Turret control	1
Pitt steelyard	In front of a line of four protectrons	Hard	Four protectrons	1
Super-Duper Mart	In a storage area the back of the store, next to the protectron	Very Easy	Protectron	2
Super-Duper Mart	Office at the back of the store	Easy	Opens door to the storage area to the right of the terminal	2
Taft Tunnel	Before the flood door	Very hard	Opens the flood door	1	No
Tenpenny Tower	In Boutique Le Chic, 1st floor	Average	Unlocks safe	4	Yes
Tenpenny Tower	In New Urban Apparel, 1st floor	Average	Unlocks safe	4	Yes
Tenpenny Tower	In the Federalist Lounge, 1st floor	Easy	Store discount	4
Tenpenny Tower	Metro access & generator around back of the tower	Easy	Unlock containment door for Tenpenny Tower	4
Tepid sewers	To the left of the entrance	Average	Control automated turrets	2
Tepid sewers	Outside Rocksalt's storage room	Easy	Unlocks Rocksalt's storage room	2
Underworld	Winthrop's Room	Average	Information Unlocks safe	4	Yes
Underworld	The Chop Shop	Very Easy	Information	4	Yes
Underworld	The Ninth Circle	Very Easy	Information Unlocks safe	4	Yes
Underworld	Underworld Outfitters	Very Easy	Information	4	Yes
VAPL-58 Power Station	Inside building	Very Hard	Unlocks safe	1
Vault 87	Living quarters	Average	Information Unlocks safe	8
Vault 87	Test labs, isolation room 01	Hard	Unlocks door	8
Vault 87	Test labs, isolation room 02	Hard	Unlocks door	8
Vault 87	Test labs, isolation room 03	Hard	Unlocks door	8
Vault 87	Test labs, isolation room 04	Hard	Unlocks door	8
Vault 87	Test labs, isolation room 05	Hard	Unlocks door	8
Vault 87	Test labs, lab tehnician	Average	Unlocks door	8
Vault 87	Test labs, medical wing maintenance	Average	Unlocks door(s)	8
Vault 92	Living quarters	Average	Women's dorm security terminal	5
Vault 92	Living quarters	Average	Men's dorm security terminal	5
Vault 92	Living quarters	Hard	Data storage entry	5
Vault 92	Living quarters	Average	Security terminal	5
Vault 92	Atrium	Average	Supply shop	5
Vault 101	Interrogation room during Trouble on the Homefront	Average	Opens cell Information (this terminal is unlocked during Escape!)	3
Vault 101	Overseer's office	Very Easy	Opens tunnel Information	3	No
Vault 101	Sub-Level	Hard	Information	3
Vault 106	Entrance, security room	Very Easy	Information	2
Vault 106	Living quarters, overseer's office	Very Hard	Information	2
Vault 112	Tranquility pod floor	Hard	Unlocks door to supply room	1
Vault-Tec headquarters	Vault-Tec administration, lower floor, northeast corner	Average	Disable turrets	2
Vault-Tec headquarters	Vault-Tec administration, upper floor	Average	Disable turrets	2
Wheaton Armory	Bottom of missile silo	Average	Turret control	2
Wheaton Armory	Bottom of missile silo	Very Hard	Unlocks door	2
Greener Pastures Disposal Site	In the offices of the disposal site on a table when you walk in to the offices	Average	Unlocks safe	2

List of hackable terminals (Fallout: New Vegas)

For the Hack the Mojave achievement/trophy you must hack 25 terminals

Place (or closest map marker)	Location in place	Skill level	Purpose	How Many	Bad Karma?
Ashton silo control station	L1	Average/Hard	Disengage lock	2	No
Black Mountain	Prison building	Very Hard	Password Disengage Lock	1	No
Black Mountain	Broadcast building 1st floor	Easy	Background info	2	No
Boulder City	Train station	Average	Disengage lock	1	No
Camp Golf	House Resort	Easy-Hard	Ranger info	2	Easy-No Hard-Yes
Camp McCarran	Inside a tent in front of Camp McCarran terminal building entrance	Very Easy	NCR Ranger mail	1	No
Camp McCarran	Camp McCarran supply shack	Average	Download weapons manifest used in Dealing with Contreras quest	1	Yes
Camp Searchlight	Around the turrets	Very Easy-Very Hard	Turret control	5	No
Camp Searchlight	NCR storage area (inside derelict church)	Average	Access safe Inventory	1	No
Forbidden Zone	X-42 Robo-Warfare Facility	Very Hard	Emergency shutdown of the X-42 giant robo-scorpion	1	No
The Fort	Weather monitoring station	Average-Hard	Quest-related	2	No
Gomorrah	Big Sal's office	Average	Disengage lock	1	No
Goodsprings	Goodsprings schoolhouse	Easy	Disengage lock	1	No
Goodsprings	Prospector Saloon	Easy	Disengage lock	1	Yes
H&H Tools Factory	2nd floor	Average	Background info	1	No
Hidden Valley bunker	L1	Very Easy-Hard	Journal entries Turret access	4	Yes
HELIOS One	Mirror yard terminals	Hard	Reset mainframe connections	2	No
HELIOS One	Solar collection tower	Easy	Turret control	1	No
Hidden Valley bunker	L2	Very Hard	Self-destruction	1	Yes
Hopeville silo bunker entrance	L1, L2, and L3	Easy-Hard	Disengage lock Disable security	3	No
Lucky 38	Casino	Hard	Quest-related	1	No
Lucky 38	Penthouse	Hard		1	No
NCR Embassy		Easy-Average	Information	2	Yes
Primm	Bison Steve Hotel	Easy	Disengage lock	1	No
Puesta del Sol switching station		Very Easy-Hard	Turn off radio Turret control	3	No
REPCONN headquarters	3 FL1, 3 FL2, 2 FL3	Very Easy-Very Hard	Disengage lock Background info Bypass security	8	No
Salida del Sol	On a desk in the south	Average	Turn speakers off	1	No
Sierra Madre Casino	Executive suites	Easy-Normal	Turn speakers off Download Recipe: Super-Heated Knife! Unlock security closet	2	No
Sunset Sarsaparilla headquarters	Factory floor	Very Easy-Average	Background info Activate Mr. Janitor	3	No
Third Street Municipal Building	Outside the entrance on a desk	Easy	Background info	1	No
Two Skies cave	In front of the electric door	Average	Disengage lock	1	No
Ulysses' Temple	Maintenance and storage	Hard	Disengage lock	1	No
Vault 3	Maintenance wing	Average	Disengage lock	2	No
Vault 3	Living quarters	Average-Hard	Disengage lock	3	No
Vault 3	Left of vault entrance	Very Easy	Close access panel	1	No
Vault 21	Gift shop	Very Hard	Background info	1	Yes
Vault 21	Sarah Weintraub's room	Easy	Sarah Weintraub's mail	1	Yes
Vault 11		Hard	Disengage lock	1	No
Villa Clinic	2nd floor	Easy	Background info	1	No
Villa Police Station	On a desk next to the front entrance	Hard	Disengage lock	1	No
X-8 research center	X-8 institutional test facility, 1st floor	Average	Turret control	2	No
X-8 research center	X-8 institutional test facility, 2nd floor	Easy	Turret control	2	No
X-13 research facility	X-13 stealth testing lab, directly across the elevator	Hard	No function	1	No

List of hackable terminals (Fallout 4)

For the RobCo's Worst Nightmare achievement/trophy, the Sole Survivor must hack 50 terminals.

Closest map marker	Difficulty	Location	Name	Content/Purpose
Andrew Station	1 !Novice	Railway platform (eastern part)	Terminal	Spotlight control
ArcJet Systems	3 !Expert	Laboratory (2nd floor, southwest)	Lab terminal	Terminal entries Safe control
Back Street Apparel	2 !Advanced	Backroom (ground floor, southwest)	Terminal	Safe control
BADTFL Regional Office	1 !Novice	Chief's office (ground floor, northwest)	Terminal	Terminal entries Safe control Turret control
BADTFL Regional Office	1 !Novice	Holding cells (basement, northeast)	Terminal	Terminal entries
BADTFL Regional Office	3 !Expert	Archive area (lower floor, southeast)	Terminal	Protectron control
Beantown Brewery	1 !Novice	Tower Tom's office (upper floor, northeast)	Tower Tom's terminal	Terminal entries
Boston Mayoral Shelter	1 !Novice	Security area (ground level)	Terminal	Turret control
Boston Mayoral Shelter	3 !Expert	Storage room (underground level)	Terminal	Terminal entries Door control
Boston Mayoral Shelter	4 !Master	Sleeping quarters (underground level, lower floor)	Terminal	Door control
Cabot House	3 !Expert	Jack Cabot's lab (2nd floor, southeast)	Terminal	Terminal entries
Cabot House	4 !Master	Emogene Cabot's room (3rd floor, northeast)	Terminal	Terminal entries
Cambridge Police Station	2 !Advanced	Chief's office (ground floor, eastern side)	Recon data terminal	Terminal entries Safe control
Crater House	1 !Novice	Southeastern shack	Terminal	Terminal entries Spotlight control Turret control
Diamond City	1 !Novice	Mayor McDonough's office	Mayor McDonough's terminal	Terminal entries Safe control
D.B. Technical High School	1 !Novice	Yellow classroom (2nd floor, western side)	Terminal	Spotlight control
D.B. Technical High School	1 !Novice	Computer lab (2nd floor, southeast)	Terminal	Terminal entries
Fallon's Department Store	1 !Novice	Staff room (upper floor, western side)	Terminal	Protectron control
Faneuil Hall	1 !Novice	Main entrance (ground floor, western side)	Security terminal	Protectron control
Faneuil Hall	1 !Novice	Commonwealth Bank (upper floor, southwest)	Terminal	Protectron control
Faneuil Hall	3 !Expert	Commonwealth Bank (upper floor, northwest)	Terminal	Door control
Fraternal Post 115	1 !Novice	Executive office (upper floor, northeast)	Executive terminal	Terminal entries Safe control Turret control
Goodneighbor	2 !Advanced	Bobbi's place (upper floor)	Bobbi's terminal	Terminal entries Safe control
Jamaica Plain	1 !Novice	Town Hall basement (northern side)	Treasures access terminal	Door control
Jamaica Plain	3 !Expert	Town Hall basement (northern side)	Security terminal	Protectron control
Listening Post Bravo	4 !Master	Bunker entrance	Terminal	Door control
Mass Bay Medical Center	3 !Expert	Reception (ground floor, western side)	Terminal	Protectron control
Museum of Freedom	1 !Novice	Generator room (basement)	Computer terminal	Door control
Museum of Freedom	1 !Novice	Director's office (3rd floor, northwest)	Museum Operations terminal	Terminal entries Door control
Sanctuary	1 !Novice	Yellow house (southwest)	Ledger terminal	Terminal entries
Shaw High School	1 !Novice	Main office (ground floor, southern side)	Faculty terminal	Terminal entries
Suffolk County Charter School	1 !Novice	Main hall (ground floor)	Terminal	Protectron control
Suffolk County Charter School	3 !Expert	Basement	Terminal	Door control
Sunshine Tidings Co-op	1 !Novice	Central building	Sunshine Tidings terminal	Terminal entries Mr. Handy control
Super-Duper Mart	1 !Novice	Manager's office (ground floor, southern corner)	Terminal	Protectron control Safe control
Tenpines Bluff	2 !Advanced	Train tracks checkpoint (to the east)	Terminal	Door control
The Institute	1 !Novice	West stairs (ground floor, near clinic)	Terminal	Door control
The Institute	4 !Master	East stairs (ground floor, near commissary)	Terminal	Door control
University Point	1 !Novice	Sedgwick Hall: machine parts magazine (2nd floor, northwest)	Gerald's terminal	Terminal entries
University Point	1 !Novice	Slocum's Joe cafeteria (ground floor, northwest)	Terminal	Door control
University Point	1 !Novice	University Credit Union (basement, southern side)	Vault control terminal	Door control
Vault 81	1 !Novice	Clinic (bottom floor, residential area)	Terminal	Terminal entries
Vault 81	2 !Advanced	Overseer's office (top floor, atrium area)	Overseer's terminal	Terminal entries
Vault 81	3 !Expert	Secret Vault (close to the end)	Vault 81 Secure Access terminal	Door control
Vault 81	4 !Master	Reactor room (under the stairs)	Old Overseers terminal	Terminal entries
Wicked Shipping Fleet Lockup	1 !Novice	Warehouse (outside)	Terminal	Protectron control
Yangtze	2 !Advanced	Medbay (lower deck)	Terminal	Door control
Yangtze	3 !Expert	Southern stairs (upper deck)	Bulkhead terminal	Door control
Yangtze	4 !Master	Reactor room (lower deck)	Bulkhead terminal	Door control
Yangtze	4 !Master	Armory (lower deck)	Terminal	Door control