10 May
2007
10 May
'07
6:03 p.m.
On 5/10/07, Jim Brain <brain at jbrain.com> wrote:
number. As I recall, the student accounts ran on some
multi-68K CPU
unix box that was sitting in the basement of the Illini Union. I saw
Yep, it was a Sequent, I remember some boxes (cardboard ones) in the
8-English lab from Sequent. Upgrade parts, maybe. I thought the
machine itself was there in that lab, but there's no way to recall
what I saw there. I was jht56010, so you're date code holds there
(since my account was generated in 91.) I don't think I discovered
usenet until I left UIUC (in '92, unfortunately,) or at least I didn't
post from there.
Vista eye candy, I remember folks writing elaborate
scripts so they
could have all their X goodies (xv, xeyes, etc.) come up on any X
terminal anywhere on campus, whether it be the IBM RTs, the Sparcs, or
the RS6000 units in DCL. I, sadly, was never that motivated, so I just
Now that stuff I don't recall, probably because I wasn't in any CS
classes then. I remember IBM PS/2s with telnet in the dorm labs (PAR
and FAR open all night!) and everyone competed for the Mac SE (or
SE/30s?) to use windowing and play SCEPTRE :)
of choice. It sounds crazy, but I used that 64 for
all my college work
until late 1992. PLATO on the 64, MPs via Novaterm, and term papers via
GEOS and my OKI180 printer.
My HS graduation gift was an Amiga 500 (geek!) so I got to bring that
down there with me. All I could do was dial in to a shell - not sure
if AmigaTCP/SLIP was around then, and if so I doubt UIUC was providing
that service.
-j