Subj : Re: It's the food
To   : vorlon
From : poindexter FORTRAN
Date : Thu Mar 16 2023 17:02:31

  Re: Re: It's the food
  By: vorlon to poindexter FORTRAN on Fri Mar 17 2023 10:21 am

 >> 11:45pm for the deal, and spend a couple hours drinking free coffee
 >> refills and doing homework.

 vo> Sure it wasn't perving on the opposite sex?

Unfortunately, no - it was writing VAX assembly code. Our class had 30 people, and a VAX with 8 serial ports. 4 of them connected to terminals, the other 4 went into a port selector. 

The best way to get the problem sets done was to get wired up, write the code down, then dial in at 2am to enter and run your code.

I think that was the last class where I needed to use a campus computer; the rest could be done on a "microcomputer".
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