[TriLUG] visiting Red Hat HQ

[Glenn Hennessee]

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
>  
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: trilug-bounces at trilug.org [mailto:trilug-bounces at trilug.org] On
> Behalf Of Jim
>> Wright
>> Sent: Thursday, February 08, 2007 3:23 PM
>> To: Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list
>> Subject: Re: [TriLUG] visiting Red Hat HQ
>>
>> 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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Glenn Hennessee
Department of Chemistry
NC State University
Raleigh, NC 27606
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