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Somehow, I don’t recall the folks hanging around the IBM 4331 we had at the college (or the successor 4341, or, for that matter, around any of our 3278 terminals) looking like this<\/a>. I recall a lot more denim and t-shirts, in fact.<\/p>\n

(I also don’t recall the 4331 being a “minicomputer,” along the lines of the VAX or DEC-10. We always referred to it as the “mainframe,” though that might also have been wishful thinking.) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Somehow, I don’t recall the folks hanging around the IBM 4331 we had at the college (or the successor 4341, or, for that matter, around any of our 3278 terminals)…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hi-tech"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10335,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2007\/02\/14\/to_thee_we_sing_with_our.html","url_meta":{"origin":8252,"position":0},"title":"“To thee we sing with our PCs on WiFi …”","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 14-Feb-07 1:30pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Pomona College (my alma mater) made the Top 20 list for PC Magazine's evaluation of \"Most Wired Colleges.\" Back in the day, we were (for a liberal arts place) pretty...","rel":"","context":"In "Hi-Tech"","block_context":{"text":"Hi-Tech","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/hi-tech"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2233,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2002\/07\/22\/monday_monday.html","url_meta":{"origin":8252,"position":1},"title":"Monday, Monday","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 22-Jul-02 9:57am","format":false,"excerpt":"It's the Monday Mission: 1. 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