Calum's Wee GNOME Blog » akademy http://blogs.gnome.org/calum Usability an' that Wed, 08 Feb 2012 00:33:42 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Och-aye-demy http://blogs.gnome.org/calum/2007/04/30/och-aye-demy/ http://blogs.gnome.org/calum/2007/04/30/och-aye-demy/#comments Mon, 30 Apr 2007 16:30:05 +0000 calum http://blogs.gnome.org/calum/2007/04/30/och-aye-demy/ Just noticed that KDE’s Akademy conference is taking place in my old stomping ground of Strathyclyde University’s Computer Science Department in Glasgow… pity there are no usability sessions on the schedule, might have been tempted to gatecrash for nostalgia’s sake :)

Back in my day (1989-93), the Graham Hills building was called Marland House (we’d just bought it off BT), and its main function was to house a lab full of QLs that Sinclair had donated. Despite the stories in the press at the time, every student didn’t get one to take home– AFAIK they all stayed in the lab, and all we ever did with them was our 68k assembly language assignments (as set by Duncan Smeed, who’s probably still setting them today…)

The top few floors of the Livingstone Tower, on the other hand, housed (as they still do) the staff offices and the 3rd and 4th year computer lab, which at the time had just been kitted out with smart new Sun terminals (ELCs, IIRC– which looking back at them now were the forerunner of Sun Rays, I guess). Little did I know then…

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