This not-so-solemn ceremony brought back fond (?) memories of the first couple years of my undergrad which I did at U of M. It's mildly frightening thinking back to all those mainframe technologies we used back then (20 years ago now - yikes!).
I was in one of the last groups who started out their computer science program on the mainframe. They were just starting to transition to Macs (Lightspeed Pascal on a Mac SE!). I was actually doing some work for the CS department at that time to support the transition.. wrote a Mac printer driver that would route things over the serial port connection to the mainframe and dump it out the printers there. Also did most of the work to port a fake machine language simulator used for some second year low-level courses to the Mac, creating a little IDE with editor, compiler and debugger/monitor for it. I always got a kick after it was deployed, wandering through the labs and seeing people using it for their assignments. Ten or so years later, when we hired Raymond (who had done his degree at U of M) at TeamWave, he told me he had been stuck using that damn system too.
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