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    1st touch on a Computer

    When I was site engineer at Birm Uni computer dept in early - mid 80's ( Big Multics system - forerunner of Unix ) they had a Cad/Cam room where they had machines running DOGS ( Drawing Office Graphics System? ) and also Swans and Pigs - don't know what those acronyms stood for, but at the time...
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    1st touch on a Computer

    You're right el-stano - I've still got one in the garage which I used to use back in the 80's to connect to various mainframes when I worked for Honeywell as a field engineer. I worked for them from 79 to 2007 - by which time they had morphed into Bull Computers. I had used computers back in...
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