I vaguely remember, as an undergrad, the department getting a PDP-whatever, which had, if I recall, 8k of RAM, a paper reader for input, and a teletype for output.
You were lucky! We used to dream of that.
Actually, that's exactly the machine I first learned on. A PDP-8e that had been upgraded from 4k to 8k with a paper tape reader and a teletype.
I made a tape once that when you ran it through the reader and echoed it to the teletype, it printed out the football results. I embeded a lot of NULLs in there too, so the print head bobbed up and down a lot and it looked just like the teletype on Grandstand.
It was a sign of things to come.
Oh yeah and not that A levels are so much easier now or anything, but this was back in junior school
