20 years ago today, I was getting ready to head back to my final semester of my undergrad in CompSci. I had just completed my last course that used the IBM 370 with Modula-2 (the base language for UND at the time). The Internet for me was mostly mailing lists and USENET. I so wanted a NeXT cube but there was no way I could afford it. My last papers were completed on a Mac SE/30. No class I had touched a GUI. The one class that had Lisp was a nightmare because the VAX had too little memory so the REPL became batch processing with 2 or more students working at the same time. The only computer I bought was an Atari 130xe to replace my old 400, and all it was used for was electronic fun with the joystick/paddle ports (or the occasional MULE game).
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20 years ago today, I was getting ready to head back to my final semester of my undergrad in CompSci. I had just completed my last course that used the IBM 370 with Modula-2 (the base language for UND at the time). The Internet for me was mostly mailing lists and USENET. I so wanted a NeXT cube but there was no way I could afford it. My last papers were completed on a Mac SE/30. No class I had touched a GUI. The one class that had Lisp was a nightmare because the VAX had too little memory so the REPL became batch processing with 2 or more students working at the same time. The only computer I bought was an Atari 130xe to replace my old 400, and all it was used for was electronic fun with the joystick/paddle ports (or the occasional MULE game).