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Someone had perhaps set up a place for reminiscences and descriptions of ur-systems such as this as Wikipedia seem to want to have pages with independent verifi
by keithpeter 10y ago
Someone had perhaps set up a place for reminiscences and descriptions of ur-systems such as this as Wikipedia seem to want to have pages with independent verification. We don't want ephemera lost as people retire/die and Web sites suffer bitrot.
It did strike me that the author (one of the developers of the system) was - perhaps implicitly - claiming quite a lot of influence for his work.
PS: We had a school trip to ICI Runcorn in around 1975 or so. Alas, I don't remember any dumb terminals (we were in labs and a hall that could cope with 20 schoolboys). We were there to see a demonstration of fluorine chemistry - which definitely made an impression, as did the practical session on fitting and testing gas cylinders (we had nitrogen ones to fit, they weren't daft).