When I did a computer vision course during the final years of my CS degree ('87/'88) we actually did the development on HLH Orion minis but could only view stuf

When I did a computer vision course during the final years of my CS degree ('87/'88) we actually did the development on HLH Orion minis but could only view stuff by printing it out! Edit: We did get a demo of 2D Fourier analysis stuff on a Sun - which, of course, we thought was amazingly cool.