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Verily, verily frankie@mundens.gen.nz (Frank G. Pitt) didst write on
Sun, 03 May 1998 11:58:08 +1200 in
nz.comp:<QM7S14Fv5KgC092yn@mundens.gen.nz>...

>In article <354838c5.18819744@news.caverock.co.nz>,

>patrick_dunford@hotmail.com.nz (Patrick Dunford) wrote:
>>When I started using
>>computers the big powerful stuff was a PDP11 with that type, or
>>similar, terminals. No graphics as such.
>
>For a start I refuse to believe you're that old, :-) 
>and secondly you're wrong.  PDP11s and their predecessors
>were _never_ the "big. powerful, stuff", they were always
>the "mid to low range stuff". 

OK, the PDP11 is actually a "mini", not a "mainframe"

but when I worked for a Government department in 1986 we were using
IBM 44xx mainframe with dumb terminals 80x24, green, nothing
sophisticated, and that still seems to be prevalent in some sectors
(banking e.g.)

I started High School 1979, PCs had only just been invented and at the
end of that year they got their one and only TRS-80. By the 5th form
we were submitting stuff on coding forms to the University of
Canterbury's PDP-11 Pascal compiler which could also be programmed
using punched cards and ran half a dozen 80x24 black & white terminals
for editing.

At University in 1984, the same setup was used, this time to run
Fortran. It was gone by 1990 though.

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