[Shop-talk] Quick question on garage floors and garage lifts

[Karl Vacek]

> 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.