On Wed, 2005-07-20 at 14:33 -0400, Kevin Mark wrote: > On Tue, Jul 19, 2005 at 11:42:50AM -0600, Glenn English wrote: > > On Tue, 2005-07-19 at 18:30 +0200, Joachim Fahnenmueller wrote: [snip] > Hi Glen, > IIRC when I went the UB in 1985, I learned USCD pascal on a CDC 6000 > although we used terminals like hazelton and VT200? and had an advanced > single line text editor and then (gasp) a full screen editor (fse)! > Yipes the old days!
Rule #1 back then (1984, when CompSci I was FORTRAN 77 on cards, to weed out the non-dedicated) was to make friends with the guy who had the Apple II & the Hayes Smartmodem 300. Since the (ancient, even by those standards) Burroughs terminals were block-oriented, the ASCII serial interface only allowed a single line text editor, too. Better than punching cards, though. And you could play Zork when you were done... -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson, LA USA PGP Key ID 8834C06B I prefer encrypted mail. "There are no friends at cards or world politics." Finley Peter Dunne
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