> You didn't hang out in the right places. The UNIX system with ARPANET
> access was over in the EE building. Some heated discussions as I recall,
> over the EE department having it instead of the Math dept.
But do you remember SUVON ? State Universities VOice Network. You could go
to the Union and use one of the campus phones on the second floor (second
from the aisle if I remember right) and by punching in a number or two, you
had free long-distance. I always pictured FBI-type agents coming up and
putting the arm on me ne day while I was calling from there.
> Ah yes, the Purdue Remote Online Computing SYstem, aka PROCSY. I spent
> many, many hours using it; that might have been better spent studying,
> sleeping, etc.
Ahhh, Purdue acronyms. I remember PUFFT for our undergrad FORTRAN
programs - Purdue University Fast Fortran Translator. A subset of FORTRAN
designed to compile faster on the 1401 because of the huge number of
undergrad programs being compiled and recompiled day in and day out. ISTR
there were a few functions we couldn't use, but otherwise it was pretty much
standard FORTRAN out of the McCracken book.
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