9 Feb
2021
9 Feb
'21
5:46 a.m.
It was very probably a precursor to this product on a VMS DECUS tape:
https://www.digiater.nl/openvms/decus/vax83c/harris/aaareadme.txt
This is from '83 but the one I was using was pre 79.
Funny story: the account to run the typing tutor had an open login.
The login had unlimited credit on JANET, the uk pre-internet X25
network. JANET was driving cost recovery models, so data was
"budgeted" with real world money.
I used the typing tutor login to make X29 PAD calls over JANET from
York to Edinburgh to "talk" to my dad who was on EMAS at edinburgh
uni. It was nice.
I spent GBP200 of JANET "credits" and got caught at the end-of-month
by the accounts team in the computer centre, hauled up before the
professor for "hacking" and was formally reprimanded and required not
to do it again (tm).
Hacker career over before end of first term of first year university.
On Tue, Feb 9, 2021 at 1:18 AM Will Senn <will.senn(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 2/7/21 4:33 PM, George Michaelson wrote:
The "learn" about shell or editing
required you to demonstrate you
could type with 'pack my box with six dozen liquor jugs' input gating
the lesson as I remember it. something else around that time, I think
the TOPS-10 typing tutor got me the home keys. Took another 10 years
for me to wake up to being able to type mostly eyes off the keyboard
but it sure seems to work (most of the the time) now.
-G
OK. I was hoping somebody somewhere had used a unix typing tutor, but if
the TOPS-10 tutor was the only thing out there, was it any good? Surely,
somebody somewhen knows of others?
Will