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> at major universities and research centres So not common outside of ivory towers, no?
by rTX5CMRXIfFG 6mo ago
> at major universities and research centres
So not common outside of ivory towers, no?
- tliltocatl 6mo agoBefore IBM PC computer's weren't particularly commonplace outside of ivory towers either.
- LocalH 6mo agoYou're forgetting the big three, all of which predated the 5150 PC - Commodore PET, Apple II, and TRS-80.
- cestith 6mo agoI went to a regional state university. We had an older IBM mainframe with a hypervisor and the students and faculty were all users on MUSIC/OS. This was in the early/mid 1990s.
- nerdsniper 6mo agoThat was a huge fraction of computing at the time. Before 1992 or so, the only people I was aware of that was into computers were all associated with a University. Typewriters were still actually very common.