Wow. What a blast from the past. While I was in high school, I used Hazeltine 2000 terminals at the local college campus to log in to the GE-255 time-sharing system. They were so much faster than the ASR-33 TTY we used to dial in from the high school. This was in 1972.
The GE-255 system was impressive for the day. It had a terminal unit with 21 dial-in lines that occupied an entire wall in the computing center. There was a 3-ft. diameter hard-drive spindle with about a dozen platters, that ran a file system with maximum 6144 character files, so that was the maximum program size you could write in Dartmouth time-sharing BASIC, time-sharing FORTRAN, or time-sharing ALGOL. Using the CHAIN command, you could chain multiple program files together (sort of), and cheat the file size limitations.
I still have punched paper tape of my programs that I saved using the paper tape punch on the ASR-33 TTY.
The GE-255 system was impressive for the day. It had a terminal unit with 21 dial-in lines that occupied an entire wall in the computing center. There was a 3-ft. diameter hard-drive spindle with about a dozen platters, that ran a file system with maximum 6144 character files, so that was the maximum program size you could write in Dartmouth time-sharing BASIC, time-sharing FORTRAN, or time-sharing ALGOL. Using the CHAIN command, you could chain multiple program files together (sort of), and cheat the file size limitations.
I still have punched paper tape of my programs that I saved using the paper tape punch on the ASR-33 TTY.
