<div dir="ltr">I do work for UoGuelph and they have a very strong sense of openness. They go to lengths to support that. I feel proud to support an academic institution that holds this as a value.<div><br></div><div>David</div>
</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 10:03 PM, James Knott <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:james.knott-bJEeYj9oJeDQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org" target="_blank">james.knott-bJEeYj9oJeDQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="">On 05/22/2014 09:23 PM, <a href="mailto:phiscock-g851W1bGYuGnS0EtXVNi6w@public.gmane.org">phiscock-g851W1bGYuGnS0EtXVNi6w@public.gmane.org</a> wrote:<br>
> On seeing the mainframe, one of the students said 'This<br>
> stuff belongs in a museum. I'm going to go to Waterloo where they have<br>
> modern equipment.'<br>
<br>
</div>Back then, I was doing my FORTRAN homework on a VAX 11/780 at work. One<br>
thing I recall was the difficulty in finding an available terminal that<br>
wasn't broken. As I had a PC & modem at home, instead of trying to find<br>
a working terminal, I simply went home and did my lab work there. Also,<br>
instead of using the line editor on the mainframe, I could just use a<br>
text editor to write my files and then upload them to the IBM. I was<br>
using Procomm Plus for a terminal emulator on PC-DOS. Back then I also<br>
took BASIC and Pascal courses, in addition to FORTRAN. We also had to<br>
use SPICE for EE classes.<br>
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