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Bruce Hoult wrote in message <2977170971@hoult.actrix.gen.nz>...

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>At the same time, the university's main computer was a PDP 11/70 with
>768 KB or core and dozens of mostly VT52 terminals, though I recall using
>a Tectronix vector graphics storage terminal where you had to press
>"clearscreen" each time you got to the bottom of the screen, otherwise
>the new text would overwrite the old text!  *very* slow phosphor on that
>one!
>
>As a 2nd year student, in 1982, I had 24 hour access to the shiny new VAX
>11/780 (2 MB RAM, I think) which was dog slow with 50 logins during the
>day, but seemed very reasonably responsive with "only" half a dozen people
>in the wee small hours.


We must be around the same vintage.  My first machine was a PDP 11/70
running RSTS/E, and I remember how slow the VAX 11/780's were when I was at
Melbourne Uni.  The easiest way to get an assignment extension in 1st year
was to go to your tutor and utter the magic words, "the 3rd years are doing
an assignment."  And don't even ask what happened when the meteorology
super-user ran his weather modelling...

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