[TriLUG] visiting Red Hat HQ

[Jim Ray]

It was a tough pill for me to swallow to go from 8" floppies on that DEC
RSTS-11 in the '70s at Woodberry Forest School into the FORTRAN cards at
NCSU in the '80s.  Carrying that stack of cards in a backpack was a workout.

Regards,
 
Jim
 
Jim Ray, President
Neuse River Networks
tel: 919-838-1672 cell: 919-606-1772
http://www.Neuse.Net
 
Connecting You to the World since 1997
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: trilug-bounces at trilug.org [mailto:trilug-bounces at trilug.org] On
Behalf Of Glenn
> Hennessee
> Sent: Thursday, February 08, 2007 4:02 PM
> To: Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list
> Subject: Re: [TriLUG] visiting Red Hat HQ
> 
> 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
> > Neuse River Networks
> > tel: 919-838-1672 cell: 919-606-1772
> > http://www.Neuse.Net
> >
> > Connecting You to the World since 1997
> >
> >
> >> -----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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> NC State University
> Raleigh, NC 27606
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