Semi OT: Academic Firewall Rules

[D. Hugh Redelmeier]

| From: phiscock-g851W1bGYuGnS0EtXVNi6w at public.gmane.org

| > Back when I went to Ryerson, we only had an IBM mainframe available.  We
| > had to use whatever was provided, as we couldn't download anything to
| > it.
| 
| For years, faculty had been asking for an upgrade to that system.

I vaguely remember, about 1978, Ryerson and York shared a new
DecSystem 10 or DecSystem 20.  I got to play with it remotely for the
short period before it went into real service.  I used a clone of an
IBM 2741, from the farmhouse we lived in.  We played adventure at
134.5 bits/second.

Perhaps something in this recollection is inaccurate.

U of T didn't have as good a system.  There was a a PDP-10, but it was
only used as a front-end for an IBM 7094 mark II, dealing with cloud
chamber experiments.  (This was due to Computing Centre vs Physics
Department politics.)

The Dynamic Graphics Project did have a PDP-11 running UNIX, but that
was only available to a very few of us.

General time-sharing availability at U of T was pathetic.
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