It wasn't all that bad. If you were an average college student in the early 80's you had a time-sharing login to a PDP 11/70 running RSTS. TECO was there but th

It wasn't all that bad. If you were an average college student in the early 80's you had a time-sharing login to a PDP 11/70 running RSTS. TECO was there but there was also VTEDIT which was a collection of TECO macros that sent the correct escape sequences to the VT52 terminal to create a usable screen-editing environment. And if you wanted to tweek the escape sequences to customize your function keys that was do-able. This scene from Wargames shows what an average college computer lab looked like in the early 80's. The terminals were probably VT52's, VT100's, or Teleray 10T's which were VT52-compatible. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n31fogbmQTg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n31fogbmQTg