16 Jul
2021
16 Jul
'21
5:18 a.m.
On Thu, Jul 15, 2021 at 3:27 PM Nelson H. F. Beebe <beebe(a)math.utah.edu> wrote:
Our campus had an 1108 at the
University of Utah Computer Center, but I chose to avoid it, because
it was run in batch mode with punched cards, and never got networking.
It was a terrible beast. One place to submit card decks +
undergraduate procrastination was an unhappy combination. Later
there was a crude form a timesharing grafted on to it, with some very
shrill terminals attached. The details are mercifully vague but I
think you basically had a 'session' and whatever files you created in
that session didn't persist once you'd logged out.
I remember trying to use the C compiler on that DEC-20 but never got
very far with it; I thought the SAIL compiler was more interesting.
Shows what foresight I had...
--
Jim (op.davis(a)science.utah.edu, iirc)