Semi OT: Academic Firewall Rules

[James Knott]

On 05/22/2014 09:23 PM, phiscock-g851W1bGYuGnS0EtXVNi6w at public.gmane.org wrote:
> On seeing the mainframe, one of the students said 'This
> stuff belongs in a museum. I'm going to go to Waterloo where they have
> modern equipment.'

Back then, I was doing my FORTRAN homework on a VAX 11/780 at work.  One
thing I recall was the difficulty in finding an available terminal that
wasn't broken.  As I had a PC & modem at home, instead of trying to find
a working terminal, I simply went home and did my lab work there.  Also,
instead of using the line editor on the mainframe, I could just use a
text editor to write my files and then upload them to the IBM.  I was
using Procomm Plus for a terminal emulator on PC-DOS.  Back then I also
took BASIC and Pascal courses, in addition to FORTRAN.  We also had to
use SPICE for EE classes.


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