Re: Fun with Durham and NUMAC @I Am Spartacus
We must have met frequently. I started Joint Honors Computing and Electronics 1978, although I could not cope with the Maths subsid that was intended for Engineers (although I think they had too few places and had to choose somebody to shed, and I had issues at the end of the first year). and fell back to General Science. But I did Principal computing in my second year, and then became a once-a week advisor for the Computing subsid. course in my last year, which paid for my beer (£3 an hour for three hours, and beer costing <50p a pint!) and kept me an account on the computers, even though I was not a computing student that year,
It was less NUMAC that I was interested in, and more the PDP-11/34 on the ground floor that was running UNIX. This is what set my career, and here I am, over forty years later still using UNIX. I have a lot to be thankful to Durham for.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
