> On May 5, 2015, at 5:13 AM, Colin Yarwood <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> do you still have a Terak in the Uni? ;-)

A whoosiwhatsy? Had to google that one…I’ve never even heard of them! 
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terak_8510/a>; lord knows someone may have had 
one.

I’ve got the display head of a Wang Calculator sitting on my desk that belonged 
to a long—ago prof in the College 
<http://www.oldcalculatormuseum.com/wang360e.html> No clue where the rest of it 
went :-/, but in 1977  I was at one of these 
<http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e8/IBM_card_punch_029.JPG> 
punching up cards in FORTRAN to run on the Uni’s mainframe. I met one person 
who had an Apple II in that era.

This was before my 12-year long foray into biochemistry (I passed my math 
requirements for my BS with mostly CS courses.) Computers were just a hobby and 
occasional work project. (In 1984 I was working at the General Foods research 
labs in Tarrytown NY and got roped into writing a reporting and analysis front 
end for the computerization of one of our test instruments. 

This on a weird HP DOS-compatible running on a 68000 cpu. Their version of 
BASIC had HPGL built in; I had a big four-pen plotter for an output device.

I got my Apple ][+ shortly thereafter, my first Mac in ’88.)

That said I DID have the UCSD p-system for my Apple ][+…still do around the 
house somewhere, if the disks haven’t disintegrated into dust. 

-- 
Bruce Johnson
University of Arizona
College of Pharmacy
Information Technology Group

Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs

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