Digression - Ah Yes!! The PDP-10 - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

25 Oct 2017

oddly there  were times  you  could   dial into a  broken dec 10 connect 
and end up  connected to someone elses  session.... Ed#

In a message dated 10/25/2017 2:18:30 P.M. US Mountain Standard Time,  
cctalk at classiccmp.org writes:

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  -----Original Message-----
 From: cctalk  [mailto:cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Robert
 Adamson via  cctalk
 Sent: 25 October 2017 20:56
 To:  cctech at classiccmp.org
 Subject: Digression - Ah Yes!! The  PDP-10

 Beginning of the 70's I was using a pdp-10 at TSL  (Time Sharing Limited, UK)
...
  over a phone line writing logic  simulation software
in Fortran. Remember it
...
  fondly, especially the  number of times I needed to
redial in and try to
 reconnect to my  session. Still smell the teletype. Cost about ?10 for the 20
...
   seconds cpu-time or so just to compile the
program!!!

I used  to use the DECSYSTEM-20 from a Teletype (until they got replaced by
VDUs).  That is why I really wanted a nice Model 33 ASR, which I now have.  
I
sometimes connect it up to SIMH running TOPS-20 to relive the happiest  part
of my school days.

...
  Roll on a few years and I was  actually at the console
of a 10 at Smiths doing IC
...
  layout graphics  interactively on their Lady Jane
suite. What a great single-user
...
   machine!

 (and I still remember my username and password from  TSL, typed it so  often
it
...
  burned in).