Most people destroyed a good chunk of what’s left of timber in the Western states printing, reprinting, and rereprinting their drafts for literally weeks just trying to get everything to fit. Then, you’d have to go back and edit the text-only page-definition code and content to try to get the various document parts to fit in their registrar-defined boundaries (e.g., title page, table of contents, headers, footers, body text, heading text, footnotes, glossaries, index, etc.).
You had to print out the thesis on a high-speed line printer only located in the computing center (“local” low-speed, typically dot-matrix printers were in department offices and maybe a few labs). Then, it came time to print our theses and the standard-issue way was to edit the text on an IBM 3270 terminal emulator talking to the campus IBM 370 series mainframe (which I never once used other than to set my password). Oh, go ahead and twist the knife while you’ve got it in there, you young whippah-snappah! :lol: I was a mid-career Naval Ossifer working on my MS (More of the Same) in CS here at NPS.Īll of the EE students were buying Intel 80286-based IBM PC/ATs and clones with MS-DOS because the 386 and PC/XT weren’t quite available just yet, and they all laughed at the Little Beige Boxes.
