Semi OT: Academic Firewall Rules

[David Thornton]

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.

David


On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 10:03 PM, James Knott <james.knott-bJEeYj9oJeDQT0dZR+AlfA at public.gmane.org>wrote:

> 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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