Back to School: Oh, How I Wish the iPad Had Existed in 1982

How long ago was I in college? Consider the evidence, in the form of a few details about the computer lab I used at Boston University: It was called the computer lab because it had one computer: an IBM System/370 mainframe There were some green-screen terminals, but the primary devices you used to connect to the mainframe were Teletype-style machines which printed, very slowly, on tractor-feed paper -- basically interactive typewriters. The entire university had a grand total of one laser printe...