[sdiy] Extreme DIY?

[Scott Gravenhorst]

Grant Richter <grichter at asapnet.net> wrote:
>> When I was in highschool, my brother was attending the Univ. of Illinois at
>> Chicago Circle campus where he used to sneak me into the computer center so
>> I could learn PL/1 and Fortran on the IBM 360/195.
>
>Did you get over to the Video Swamp and meet Dan Sandin or see the IP?

No, I was allowed only in the TSO terminal room and the back room with the
1800 (which had some wild analogue stuff connected to it).  I could only peek
at the massive 195 through a window.

Video Swamp?  IP?  I doubt if my brother knew of these either.  He was an
Information Eng. student.

>I was sneaking in at Circle Campus around the same time.
>

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