I came to State in 1972 and the computer was an IBM 360 Model 40. It
resided in the basement of Nelson Hall, where Textiles was in those
days. The card punches, yes card punches, were there too. There were a
few satellite rooms on campus with card readers, key punches and
printers that connected to the mainframe. I spent many a Friday evening
in Nelson -- Friday because most students were not trying to use the
computer and keypunches were easy to get and turnaround was fast. I
think TUCC existed then but was used mostly for faculty research I think.
glenn
Jim Ray wrote:
Wow. Turn on the wayback machine. TUCC is what I had to use at NC State
the year before they got PCs. It was really cool. You wait in line to
punch the cards, wait in another line to read 'em in, wait in another line
to see what happened and walk across campus from the basement of Daniels
Hall to the Hillsborough St. Computer Center to pick up the printout from
Tony.
It was a major deal getting that DEC Rainbow and Hayes Smartmodem 1200 to
save a trip to campus.
My, how things have changed.
Regards,
Jim
Jim Ray, President
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Greg Brown wrote:
Hum.. both good questions, I'm not exactly sure. The elevator
certificate
in the same building dates to 1959 if memory isn't failing me.
I believe Ragland was built in '59, but probably wasn't a datacenter
until many years later. I believe it still is now, but I also believe
it is slated for demolition sometime soon. The oldest buildings that
were actually data centers in the olden days probably are something at
IBM and the First Flight Center (formerly TUCC).
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