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You and I shared the same Freshman year at UT Austin.

What a huge enrollment!    What a great football team.

Austin Texas and UT was such a fun place compared to my tiny rural high school in East Texas.

I started out as a Chemistry Major, but took a test during admissions that let me opt out of
taking the usual Freshman Chemistry course.  So, I took an experimental course for freshmen
by Dr F. A. Matsen named  "The Vector Space Theory of Matter", and they taught us FORTRAN.

I was hooked immediately on writing software.

So I changed my major to Math/CS.

I had a part time job coding for graduate students in the Physical Chemistry Dept (mostly FORTRAN
for doing matrix calculations for their Quantum Mechanics models) or various things for the CS Dept
through Dr. Brown all four years I attended as an undergraduate.

I had no idea that having a CDC-6600 as your first computer was quite unusual.

  - Larry

On 6/11/2020 6:08 PM, Rich Alderson wrote:
> Dallas <dallas@texas.usa> writes:
> 
>> That was when I was a student at UT Austin in 1969 using the CDC-6600 and an
>> operating system named COS (Chippewa Operating System) .
> 
> I knew that system!  I was a freshman in the fall of 1969 at UT; I had a
> work-study job with the School of Education's CAI Lab, working with an IBM 1800
> in the basement of Sutton Hall and the administration's System/360 Model 50 in
> the basement of the Tower.
> 
> When interviewing for a work-study job, I got sent over to the computer center
> and got my first look at the 6600.  The next year, I took a COMPASS class, but
> they were running SCOPE by that time.
> 

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