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.
