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That Museum was interesting. When I was in college, we moved up from keypunches and carry the deck to the computing center to 33ASR teletypes and we thought we were in heaven.
The first high school I went to in 1977 had an old system I played around with where we still had keypunches for batch operation. We could still operate interactively: By using the teletype keyboard to input code in octal onto the magnetic drum.

In 1978 I transferred schools and spent many hours using an ASR33 linked via a 110 bps modem to the PDP11/40 at the local college. But the sheer luxury was going down to the college itself where if you pleaded, begged, or just managed to get there early enough, you could enjoy the luxury of using an assortment of VDU terminals. The Cifer VDTs were beautiful to use.

BTW, the ADSL story I posted above is now complete, for the service was finally enabled properly a few days ago. At last!

Trumpy,

"In the year 2525, If man is still alive...." [Linked Image]