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I entered grad when labs were freed from the tyranny of central university mainframe into local computers. The mainframe inputted punchcards and output to linep
by peter303 5y ago
I entered grad when labs were freed from the tyranny of central university mainframe into local computers. The mainframe inputted punchcards and output to lineprinter. The lab computer ran UNIX and had CRT terminal input/output.
- bigiain 5y agoMy first year of undergrad was spent learning to program in Pascal on a VAX11/780. At least we had terminals, not punched cards. (For 2nd year, we got a room full of Mac 512ks...)
- a9h74j 5y agoI don't remember why I was there, particularly as a physics major, but I remember a single look through while half-opening the door to a 4th? floor lab in Evans (UCB) in 1978 or so, understanding it to be the Unix lab. Not a brush-with-greatness moment per se, but "how might life be different if I had gone through the door?". I might have been lookiing for one Dr. McKracken or someone. Missed the colloquium two years later where the talk afterward was: Everyone will have a VAX on their desk.
- pjmlp 5y agoNow you get to enjoy the tyranny of central cloud management and deployment infrastructure with cloud shell and browser clients. :) First UNIX was Xenix on a PC tower that the teacher would carry around for the OS classes, where we would take turns after preparing the class material on a MS-DOS PC. Later when I got to university they were on DG/UX with the same tyranny of a central server to telnet into.