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<yorkshire_accent>Luxury!!</yorkshire_accent> When I were a lad we had a teletype terminal in Pollock Halls (Edinburgh) to complete our assignments (well there

• bonaldi 5y ago
  Over at Heriot-Watt we had SGIs and Windows boxes aplenty and I still found myself working in a little office on a VT100 hooked up to a Sun 3 (which ran a forgotten line printer). At first just because there was never any demand for the room, then later because it was just more fun.
• ajross 5y ago
  Yeah, it helps to have better equipment. My initiation consisted of getting stuck in emacs on a VT220 connected to a MIPS DECstation.
  • bigbillheck 5y ago
    I don't remember if it was a VT220 or VT320 that did it but I had to use one in undergrad computer lab (also connected to some kind of DEC running ultrix) where whenever emacs did a screen redraw (for example if you did a page down with C-v) it would go into I-search mode because something in the terminfo had a C-s to freeze the screen (before some more commands and then a C-q to un-freeze), and this was visible to emacs. Anyway what I'm trying to say is just as I'm glad I didn't have to use punch cards, I'm glad that the youth don't have to deal with that kind of nonsense.
• patrickdavey 5y ago
  Teletype ! Luxury! Why when I was a lad had to get up 10 minutes before we went to sleep, mill our own paper AND punch the cards, and if you left an instruction out it was no supper for a week.