OK, I know I promised Elections Part II today, but frankly that just isn’t going to happen. We’re in the throes of a building cleanout program in Science and Engineering and it’s organized mayhem for me right now.
I have, however, a rare treat, a picture that includes the back side of the Chemistry Building, quite possibly the least photographed spot on campus. (If you’ll recall, we saw the only other such photo I know of here, in the group of shots taken from the top of Herman Brown in the 1980s.)
I ran across this one the other day while I was trying to track down the stealthy movements of the Tau Beta Pi bent through the Engineering Quad. We’re seeing it through the skeleton of the Mechanical Engineering Building:
It’s a bad, obstructed view of the back of the Chemistry Building, but you can’t deny that that’s the back of the Chemistry Building.
Bonus: I found this while cleaning out a lab in Anderson Biology. It’s the very first kind of computer I ever used, an IBM XT.
In technology terms, that PC-XT is as decrepit as the sorry cabinet it is sitting on.
Did you find any 8″ floppy drives?
One of Stan’s recent donations could be read if we could find one that works…
Seeing the floppy drive bay sure did bring back memories for me!
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