[TUHS] Photos of University Computer Labs

[Adam Thornton]

I can well remember how the Ab Lab (in the Abercrombie mechanical
engineering building) looked and smelled at Rice University from 1990-1994,
as its Sun 3s and RT-6000s were replaced by SparcStations...but I don't
have any pictures of it.

On Wed, Dec 22, 2021 at 2:21 PM Win Treese <treese at acm.org> wrote:

>
> > On Dec 22, 2021, at 10:11 AM, Alexander Jacocks via TUHS <
> tuhs at minnie.tuhs.org> wrote:
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > I’m looking for photographs of university computer labs from 1985 until
> 1995, particularly labs full of unix workstations, of course. Does anyone
> here have photos like that in their collection?
> >
> > I’m also thinking of reaching out to university archivists, but I don’t
> have any direct connections to any.
>
> There may be some photos of MIT’s Project Athena rooms in the collections
> of the MIT Museum (http://mitmuseum.mit.edu/contact) or the Institute
> Archives at the MIT Libraries (
> https://libraries.mit.edu/distinctive-collections/collections/institute-archives/).
> In a quick search online, I only found photos of the original terminal
> rooms, with terminals connected to VAXen running UNIX. The workstations
> were deployed in 1986 +/-, I think.
>
>  - Win
>
>
>
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