[TUHS] Good ol' ed (Was *ROFF)

[Jon Steinhart]

Larry McVoy writes:
> On Tue, May 15, 2018 at 09:09:36AM -0600, arnold at skeeve.com wrote:
> > > In fairness to them, I don't know how you learn the good stuff outside
> > > of a terminal room.  I learned so much by watching the screen change
> > > and going "WTF?  How did you do that?"
> > >
> > > There is only so much you can stuff into a manual.
> > 
> > Indeed. But this can be taught; however, it seems that many of the
> > younger generation aren't interested in learning it.  As Clem noted,
> > losing the terminal room has had a negative impact on learning.
> > 
> > (Boy, are we just a bunch of old farts, or what ... :-)
>
> I'm not old, oh, wait.  And get off my lawn!  :)

I have fond memories of the "public terminal" room that was somewhere
on the 4th or 5th floor of building 2 at Murray Hill.  Never knew who
you'd run into there.