Re: X Servers for win32 & telnet logins

[C J Lamb <nospam [at] sheffield.ac.uk>]

Ian Wright wrote:

> Yes, but do you remember the days of the original comuter in the Hicks
> building - took up most of one floor (8th?) , had a 6" diameter green
> oscilloscope displaying strange waveforms and got through miles of punched
> paper taps to do what you can now do on a give-away pocket calculator! - now
> them really WERE the days - about 1962/3!!  ;O)

I have a picture of that room on my wall, with Jeff Martin winding up paper
tape
onto a spool. He was an apprentice technician at that time and he retired
2 months ago - shows how old the photo is. I still have  a PR1MENET manual
somewhere...

>
>
> Ian
>  p.s.  If anyone's poking around in dim corners of the computer centre I'm
> on the lookout for a couple of stepper motors - the kind of thing which
> is/was used in big plotters or old fashioned taps drives etc.
> --

I'll rummage in the machine room if you want but I have a feeling that the last

cull of strange bits and pieces got rid of most of that stuff.

Chris


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