> There was no working from home. The minicomputers were available only on the in-office network. I think it was not technically impossible to connect them to the Internet, but at home we all had only dialup access. Not only would speed have been a concern, but the family wouldn’t enjoy having the phone tied up for hours while you worked.
I was lucky in that I got to work remotely from the beginning. Late 80s at the university I set up a modem bank to one of the UNIX boxes and installed a second phone line at home, so I was dialed in pretty much 24x7 (at 2400 baud, of course, but with an all-text terminal session it's fine and usable).
At first job they had dialup into the Sun servers as well, so I often worked from home (by now at 14.4 and later 56K at which point remote X was doable).
I was lucky in that I got to work remotely from the beginning. Late 80s at the university I set up a modem bank to one of the UNIX boxes and installed a second phone line at home, so I was dialed in pretty much 24x7 (at 2400 baud, of course, but with an all-text terminal session it's fine and usable).
At first job they had dialup into the Sun servers as well, so I often worked from home (by now at 14.4 and later 56K at which point remote X was doable).