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jakzurr 3 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: A brief tour of the PDP-11, the most influential m...

Used several of these at school in the 90's. IIRC intro classes used VAX/VMS (was the machine called VAX-1170?). But all the higher undergrad classes used Unix on PDP-11/70's, like in the picture. Of course, I hardly ever saw one up close. :p

jakzurr 3 months ago [–]

thank god we weren't still using paper tape & punch cards, everything was old crt terminals, and online storage (though not very much)

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