Talk:TELCOMP

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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