Jason T wrote: UIUC used to use gopher to schedule interviews and describe the companies coming on campus. *Everyone* in their senior year knew their way around gopher. jlb31348 at uxa.cso.uiuc.edu here. It was a Sequent. The machine ran in the basement of the Illini Union, where there were some nice Xterminals to use. The Sequent was a slow machine (due to all the student accounts being used on it), so those of us with connections got accounts on the Sparcs in the CS labs (jbrain at cs.uiuc.edu) as they were much faster. Also, concerning trivia, the UIUC shared machines were managed by two separate entities. The dorm labs were managed by some small group in the housing area, while the rest of the lab machines (not specific class labs, but general use labs) were manage by CSO, which became CCSO in 1991 or so. (I don't know the expansion). I knew friends that adminstrered labs at CCSO. I took a job administering the dorm lab at Allen Hall, and was backup for the Lincoln Area Residence Hall lab. The dorm labs had come up on 3COM servers running some mutant of DOS that allowed more memory, but they moved to OS/2 1.3 for the servers in 1991, right before I took over the lab (much easier to fix print queues and such). They also started the process of upgrading the PS/2 Model 30s to no name 486s, as I recall, right before I left in 1993. The Mac SE/30s were the beginning of many stories. Concerning UIUC Plato machines: By the time, the Plato machines were on their way out, though Physics students still used them for labs, and they were also available at the University High School, just North East of campus. Most of the machines, though, were old and outdated. There was a neat Commodore 64 emulator for the PLATO system, and I think an IBM emulator. You could access all the systems via the magic terminal server number, 333-1100 or something. My fondest memory of the labs was the SE/30s. They had no hard drive, so they required a boot disk to startup. But, the SE ejects both disks on shutdown, as I recall, and some students would take both disks, or did not know the push the boot disk in when starting the machine up. Thus, all the MAC SEs had this metal "bra" on them. A sleeve that fit around the body of the unit around where the drives were, it had a stretched part of the metal that formed a bubble of the boot disk drive. It had a small piece of foam inside the bubble. Thus, when the disk was ejected, it hit the foam and then rebounded back into the drive. Still, be 1992, the foam was getting a bit weak, so the disks would not always rebound. In that case, the machine would not boot, displaying a question mark in a Mac icon on the screen. Thus, the bra solved one problem and created another, as students could not fix this issue, so they had to call a lab monitor, who had to call the admin (me). The solution was to unlock the bra, slide it up a bit (usually requiring force, which is why a hammer was standard issue in the supply cabinet), which would jar the disk and push it back into the drive. That took quite a bit of time, so I found out that if you just smacked the side of the SE/30 with an open palm, the resulting vibration would reseat the disk and all would be well. Thus, when I visited the lab, I took to "spanking" all of the errant SEs. The look on lab user's faces when I did that was/is priceless. Yes, it was no doubt hard on the machines, but were talking SE/30s here, many years past their prime. Jim