Reading Time: 3 minutesThe Night Shift: Tapes, Silence, and the Motherload The sixteen weeks of computer training were a total blast. In the early ’80s, there were no PCs, Windows, or Microsoft Word.  We lived at the Local> prompt on a DEC VT100 terminal. We were busy learning the guts of the machine: disk drives, tape reels, memory … Continue reading Week Three: From the Training Class to the Computer Room