🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <2...@skye.cs.ed.ac.uk>, ni...@frinton.cs.ed.ac.uk (Nick
Rothwell) writes:
|> Ok, we've had all the articles about stupid hardware, stupid
software,
|> stupid programs, stupid programmers, stupid users, and all the rest.
|> 
|> Right then: stupid computer services.
|> 
|> Remember those? Sitting here, typing away at this colour X-windows
session
|> on my personal 32Meg Unix workstation, I find it almost impossible
to
|> believe that, a few short years ago, I often had to wait around
until
|> midnight to get access to a 300baud glass tty, after filling in a
booking
|> form. I find it even harder to believe that some of the totally
stupid
|> beaurocracy seems to have persisted beyond its useful application.
|> 

Nick, I recognise those rules too - but to be fair those were the days
when terminals were not freely available for everyone at the said
institution. When I went there as a Masters student in 1981 we had to
use the card punches for the first term and thought that access to a
TVI910 was worth a few restrictions.