23 Dec
2021
23 Dec
'21
3:18 a.m.
On Thu, Dec 23, 2021 at 01:30:38AM +0000, Adam Sampson wrote:
Alexander Jacocks via TUHS
<tuhs(a)minnie.tuhs.org> writes:
The terminal rooms bring back memories. I learned *so* much looking
over someone else's shoulder and going "how did you make vi do that?".
The CP/M machines bring back different memories, using that and BDS
C because an 11/780 with 4MB of ram and 40 users meant each user was
getting 1KB so it swapped and swapped and swapped. 128K less the space
for video on a CP/M machine was slower when you had the VAX to yourself
(as in never) and much faster in general. Wrote a boatload of funky C
code on my CP/M machine. More lonely but more productive code wise.
--lm
I???m looking for photographs of university
computer labs from 1985
until 1995, particularly labs full of unix workstations, of
course. Does anyone here have photos like that in their collection?
Here's a computer lab at Dundee Institute of Technology (now Abertay
University), Dundee, Scotland around 1985:
http://stuff.offog.org/dct/torch-lab-c1985.jpg
It's unlikely that there was any Unix involved in that picture -- the
Torch machines pictured are modified BBC Micros with a Z80 coprocessor
so they can run a CP/M clone, and DIT's computer centre had a TOPS-20
system and several VMS machines at that point. 