I can't top the old guy stories, but I can provide the dot at the end of the sentence:
The "ADDS 4" terminals replaced/supplemented the card readers at NCSU, sometime in the late 80's. Through a crook of fate, I had to take the last semester of the last IBM 360 assembly language class at NCSU. That was in 1990, the year Paul mentions. The ADDS terminals in the bottom of Daniels were the common access mode at the time, (I think the Rainbows arrived in 1991?) and there were still long lines, even on Friday night, to get to the terminals. The two remaining cardpunch terminals/readers were always empty. So I bummed a box of cards from a roommate and used the keypunch terminals. I never had to wait in line for a terminal, and the assembly language programs we wrote were small enough that using cards was no big deal. The following semester, I felt the irony of happening by just as those keypunch terminals were being wheeled out of Daniels by the physical plant, displaced by the impending renovations. It was one of those rare and bittersweet moments when one got to witness the actual turning of the technology. By that time, I was screaming along on a C-64/80 Column Card and using the dial-in modems. Working at home, HiU (Homework in Underwear) mode became de rigeur. Nary a moment of nostalgia for the old days. JKB ----- Original Message ----- From: Paul Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thursday, February 8, 2007 4:11 pm Subject: Re: [TriLUG] visiting Red Hat HQ To: Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list <[email protected]> > we're playing the old guy game now. ....... > i came to unc in 1977 the 360/75 was still there. so was tucc. > until 1990. ... > http://www.lib.duke.edu/archives/holdings/campus/tucc.html -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/
