I spent equal time on amber and green screen VT100's and TTY's. Manchester Polytechnic had 4 computers available for the student body when I joined them in 1987. That is 4 mini computers and about 400 VT100 type terminals.
Strangely enough I had a real hard time adjusting to a windowed environment (Sun's windowed interface). After some time with DOS, RiscOS and some Win 3.1 I finally got to use Mac System 7. I was in love. It's WIMP environment suited me to the ground. I did however keep turning my editors to be dark backgrounds with brighter text.
Wonder who borrows data from your files in such a system, where your docs are on-line, even your personal unshared ones!
Back in 98 I think it was that year, I purchased a webtv unit. I thought it was the coolest thing ever. But when I graduated to the PC world I found out that all that glitters isn't gold. It has it's advantages of course. But technology has it's downside too. Wake me when the virus' are extracted..........
Born in Denmark, living currently in the UK. I write about creativity and communication and technology which supports those. And about spirituality/metaphysics.
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I spent equal time on amber and green screen VT100's and TTY's. Manchester Polytechnic had 4 computers available for the student body when I joined them in 1987. That is 4 mini computers and about 400 VT100 type terminals.
Strangely enough I had a real hard time adjusting to a windowed environment (Sun's windowed interface). After some time with DOS, RiscOS and some Win 3.1 I finally got to use Mac System 7. I was in love. It's WIMP environment suited me to the ground. I did however keep turning my editors to be dark backgrounds with brighter text.
Wonder who borrows data from your files in such a system, where your docs are on-line, even your personal unshared ones!
Back in 98 I think it was that year, I purchased a webtv unit. I thought it was the coolest thing ever. But when I graduated to the PC world I found out that all that glitters isn't gold.
It has it's advantages of course. But technology has it's downside too. Wake me when the virus' are extracted..........
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