I also started with a time shared teleprinter connection to a mainframe,
connected via an acoustic couple which meant you had to be quiet or the
connection got dropped. we used a language called cesil which no one
else I have met in the computing world has heard off.
Having just finished our data centre move to new site I am glad modern
servers are much smaller than the equipment of the old days.
On 12/9/11 8:45 PM, Peter Klein wrote:
> This thread should be retitled "How to feel like a fossil, but an
> experienced one."
>
> I started in 1970 with a DEC PDP-8 that was based at my high school and
> time-shared with schools around the Boston area. We used a dialect of
> BASIC called FOCAL (for copyright reasons). I/O was via a mechanical
> teleprinter (Model 33?) with yellow paper on a roll. There were orange and
> brown switches through which you toggled in the bootstrap loader so it
>
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