Well I never! I used that Elliott 803 at Swindon Technical College in 1973. Before that (back to 1969) we used their terminal room in the evenings to dial up to the Leasco service in London. We had written a time table program in Leasco Basic (still have the quick reference card somewhere) for Park Senior High School that did in one evening what a teacher used to spend a week doing. It worked out the time table for 750 pupils, trying to satisfy the demand for courses, class rooms, teachers, and laboratories. Telephone time to London was so expensive then that we couldn't afford to print the results (300 baud acoustic modem and teletype) so we had the results printed out on the line printer in London and posted back to us.
