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The LabTrip was a getting together, team bonding exercise between the University of Newcastle and The University of Durham who in 1967 pooled their money to buy one big computer rather than two small computers. In particular, it was Ewan Page's (Director at Newcastle) to provide an interactive computing service. This interactivity meant that computer users could enter commands on a terminal, a bit like a typewriter, and get an instant response. You take it for granted now but in those days you gave a task for the computer in the form of a paper tape or deck of punch cards to the computer operators and went away for lunch or do shopping or whatever. Then later in the day or next day you got the results, just to find out what you had done wrong, correct and resubmit. |