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We had the fugly IBM terminals by the time I went to the university. Long lines waiting to key in your assignments, then even longer time awaiting the printouts.

Found a nice loophole that I could exploit. Modem users got higher priority on jobs. Plus the TRS-80 Model4P I owned was capable of terminal emulation and other nice tricks to speed up Fortran and JCL assignments. So I sat in the comfort of the dorm room and used the time I saved on EE assignments.




I wrote a VT-100 emulator for my Atari ST so I could do the same thing with the school's Data General Eclipse MV-8000.

Much nicer being able to complete assignments within walking distance of the refrigerator. :)




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