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I'm old, but I'm just young enough to have missed that era. I think they still had some paper terminals somewhere, not sure. Even my dorm had a Lear Siegler
by ansible 6y ago
I'm old, but I'm just young enough to have missed that era. I think they still had some paper terminals somewhere, not sure.
Even my dorm had a Lear Siegler ADM 3 in the basement for students to use, right next to a Wang word processor.
I often hung out in the Engineering terminal rooms though, because they had the nicer Wyse terminals. Well, until senior year when CS installed some black & white X terminals for general use, which connected to a Sequent Symmetry 80386 system. That was really kick-ass at the time.
- not2b 6y agoThere were some relatively dumb CRT terminals available, but not enough. It still beat punch cards, which I sometimes had to deal with when I was just starting.
- ansible 6y agoThere was still a punch card reader in the terminal room of Math/Sci, but I had never seen someone use it. When I visited ISU a couple years previously, they were still using paper tape for storage on one of their PDP-11s. So I just missed that era too, we were using 9-track for file backups.