When I entered college ('78), I had never seen a computer, and the student computer room was full of card punches ... and one "interactive terminal" in the corner that three upper class geeks used. Behind the window (to hand in punch cards) were a Burroughs 6800, Vax, and PDP-11s ... but we had a link to an IBM 370 at Research Triangle Park. By '80, the Comp. Science dept went from less than 100, to 1000 and the cards had virtually disappeared. Gimme access to the machines .... that's all I needed
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