To all with interest in preservation

In article <01OIZAUIJ21U001P8J at beyondthepale.ie>, Peter Coghlan <cctech at beyondthepale.ie> writes: Almost noone at the University of Delaware ever saw or heard the actual machines that they used. We all connected through terminals across a port selector. The only machine that had a different experience was the CDC cyber because it ran PLATO and you had to use a PLATO terminal. Well, there was also the RJE stations for the Burroughs machine, but honestly, by the time I was starting out there in the summer of 1978, noone really used that anymore. Our private terminal room was located next to an RJE station in Willard Hall (education departemtn) and I can't recall ever hearing a person use the card punch or submitting card decks there. Occasionally someone would send their job output to the printer and it would make noise printing up their SPSS output or something. That was pretty much it. Once we got a tour of the machine room and I saw the PDP-11/70 that we used all the time. I can barely remember what it looked like since we only saw it once. -- "The Direct3D Graphics Pipeline" free book <http://tinyurl.com/d3d-pipeline> The Computer Graphics Museum <http://computergraphicsmuseum.org> The Terminals Wiki <http://terminals.classiccmp.org> Legalize Adulthood! (my blog) <http://legalizeadulthood.wordpress.com>