I never used one, but watched with awe the one we had at our school being used in the computer lab, 1980 i think it was ? There was a guru of a developer at the time who had programmed Pong off a set ...

Studying Computer Science in the late 70s we were given access to the departmental PDP11 (a /23 if memory serves) running Unix in our second year. After a year of submitting jobs on punched cards to ...