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Re:What is the point of imagining new technologies without n... by arethuza on Thursday January 06, 2022 @10:18AM (#29824549)
"so I only had access for a few hours a week"

That must have been pretty rough - I was a CS student from 84 to 88 (Scotland so 4 years first degrees) and we had pretty much unlimited access to kit (HLH Unix minis, BBC micros, Atari STs) and we all got keys so we had 24 hour access.

If there were any issues with access to stuff, being based in the Grassmarket in Edinburgh, we'd just go to one of the many excellent pubs in the vicinity.

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Re:What is the point of imagining new technologies without n... by simonh on Thursday January 06, 2022 @12:14PM (#29826346)
There were labs with BBC Micros that were more accessible, but they only had Basic. If you're learning Pascal, C, Modula 2, etc that's just not good enough. There was a Unix machine but I didn't do any courses that required access to it.
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