<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div>Explaining John’s comment.</div><div><br></div><div>I requested some reports from UNSW Archives in 2021.</div><div>This one, by Keith Titmus in 2000, was a short history of Prof Murray Allen,</div><div>who'd hired John Lions and Ken Robinson in 1972.</div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>08_224_01 MW Allen_Keith-Titmus_2000</div><div><br></div>There were some Decwriters at UNSW, but mainly ’Serge’ Terminals in 1978.<div>Designed and built by the local staff (Serge P).</div><div><br></div><div>They were in use for 12 years.</div><div>The paint wore off the cabinets, </div><div>but they’d bought expensive ‘hall effect’ keyboards for them and they kept on and on…</div><div><br></div><div>Elsewhere:</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>In 1976, "UNSW, by end of year, boasted 200 registered users" on their Unix system.</div><div><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On 30 Jul 2025, at 00:11, Jonathan Gray <jsg@jsg.id.au> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;">When John Lions was at Bell Labs on sabbatical:</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;">"Up till now I have been using a tty 43 (this listing)</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;">...</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;">there is a noticeable preponderance of hard copy and lack of CRT terminals."</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;">John Lions, 15 August 1978</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;">AUUGN Vol 1, No 1, p 21</span></div></blockquote></div><div><br></div><div>===============</div><div><br></div><div><div>In 1972, Murray was involved with the design of VISICOM, an ME thesis by Serge Poplavsky.</div></div><div><br></div><div>In 1976 Murray directed the building of 50 terminals for the newly created computing facilities. </div><div>The first terminal laboratories were the forerunner of the computer laboratories that are now existent. </div><div>The initial batch of terminals were a hard wired construction, </div><div>while the next batch of 25 used an early version of microprocessor - the Motorola MC6802, </div><div>and the third terminal version used the Motorola MC6809.</div><div><br></div><div>The terminals were in use until the first workstations, </div><div>the Apollo using the Motorola MC68020 microprocessor, </div><div>began replacing them in 1988.</div><div><br></div><div><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); 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