Talk:TELCOMP

We were still using TELCOMP in 1974 at my school (Oundle School, Northamptonshire). Off-peak connections (i.e. after 6pm) cost almost £20 per hour -- a princely sum at the time for a school. For that reason, computing at the school remained an elitist activity, reserved typically only for the most conscientious mathematicians, until the school bought its own minicomputer (a Data General Nova). Thegn


 * Thegn, do you remember who the service provider was? It may have been either Time Sharing Limited, or Leasco? 80N 13:59, 4 November 2005 (UTC)


 * 80N, sorry I don't. 31 years is some time ago!  I don't recognise the name Leasco, so that makes it slightly more likely to have been Time Sharing.  Thegn

According to "A Culture of Innovation: Insider accounts of computer and life at BBN", TELCOMP services were directly sold by BBN. That is, customer directly dialed into a BBN computer that ran TELCOMP for you. User:Rsclient

It says that DEMAND is used for input from the teletype and READ from the tape, although the sample program uses READ in a way that seems that input from the teletype would be appropriate. Which is it? --Zzo38 (talk) 05:30, 1 October 2021 (UTC)