BlackBird usage during lockdown
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Many people have had to change  their modes of work during the lockdown
and the "home office preferred" time. Actually, I was in my office near
as often as I  should be normally because I wasn't able to  to a lot of
things remotely. Anyway, I have found  that I have been working at home
(thus I have  been working more hours  than before - but  I don;t thing
that I has been more productive).

Usually,  I  has  been  spending  a lot  of  time  on  videoconferences
(meeting, on-line  teaching, on-line exams)  and have been  doing other
things that were unnecessary before.

At  home I  have  been  doing the  "off-line"  tasks  like creation  of
documents for  teaching and  for exams (in  LaTeX) which  included some
computations and of course drawing of  pictures. I also have been doing
some technical computations and even written  some lines of code at one
occasion.  These  thing  I  have  been  doing  on  my  TALOS  BlackBird
workstation (a  POWER9-based computer  with the Fedora/ppc64le).  So IA
have been using both  my SGI machines (well, I turned  my SGI Indigo on
just to read  Gopher on a few  Sundays...) and the x86  laptop (the GPD
Pocket  1) just  for  free-time  tasks (so  they  have  been used  very
infrequently).