Wow, I'm having flashbacks to the Altair 8800 I started out on around 1976, which was originally connected to a teletypewriter before our math teacher sprung for a B&W TV monitor. It still seemed pretty awesome for the time, though.

At Miami in the basement of the Chem building we had a System 370 and TVI925 terminals. About a third of which we opened the keyboard and cut the speaker wires so people could use relay chat on bitnet. First semester in '82 programming was still done on punchcard, then shifted to CRT seceond semester. We kept a card reader in one corner for faculty that still had all their programs in that format.
Five years later the mainrame was auctioned off for $100.

We used to circulate files filled with VT-100 codes that would do things line simulate the Twilight Zone opening credits. It's a lost art.

I attended Miami University in the early to mid 80s, and we had a bunch of TV920 terminals hooked up to the mainframe, along with the high-speed printer. Sucker went a lot faster than that "google" printer did. :)

60s! Dude, 'cept for the punch cards, that's exactly how the mainframes at USC, Sun pizza boxes, operated in '89.

Ah... college.

Dude!

Sadly, my first programming class used punch cards. Kind of sucked when you type as poorly as I do.

PG, if you think that's bad, try using a genuine TTY at 300 baud, and saving your program to punched paper tape.

OMFG! That is beyond awesome!