said by alana:In 1978, I was in College. While most all the students used punch cards, I was one of the few that used the Decwriters and Tektronix terminals (and teletypes). ...
Ah, those were the days...When you cared where the system you connected to since this was all new stuff.
In 1971 Our EE department used IBM 3101 terminals to dial into Lewis Space Center's ARPANET. It sure was amazing to watch the text magically stream at a blazing 180 baud.
We even had an analog computing system we used to generate graphs of differential equations, and Wang calculators that could calculate numerical values for trig functions in as little as 30 seconds.
Our EE's IBM 360/20 and Physics lab's 1401 systems were state-of-the-art back then. *sigh*