Mid-1970s Pictures Posted

Kyle, It's a shame that you only had photos from the (relatively) "official" computers at Auburn, primarily EE & (I guess) the Main Computer Center over in the Math & Science Building. As an ME, I didn't get to see or use any of the systems in your photos, but got hooked on "Blinkenlights" when I was able to use Dr. Bussell's DG Nova 1220 (in ~1981-82) with an ASR-33 and some type of Tektronix terminal along with disk cartridge drives, pretty much as a "personal computer." It was "hidden" in a closet in the old Mechanical Lab building. Having access to that system as a "personal computer" sure beat the hell out of lining up at the Computer Center to try to use a terminal, especially once the basic programming classes graduated to FORTRAN (which brought the systems to their knees due to 30-40 students all trying to run/debug their FORTRAN programs at the same time ;) . Because of that Nova 1220 experience, I've been infected with collecting and trying (also as a non-EE) to restore old computers, mostly PDP-8 family members, with a few Q-Bus PDP-11s, a VAX 4000-200, a Commodore 64, a TI99/4A, a Sinclair (I think), an Apple III (I think), a TRS80 Model III, a Canon BX-1, and various PC clones from the early '80s almost to today. Along with an ASR-33, an LPQ01 (I think), an RK-05, a half-dozen RL01/02s, a couple dozen disk packs, and a half dozen RX01/02s, literally thousands of 5.25-inch, a few-hundred 3.5-inch, & about a hundred 8-inch diskettes. Perhaps one of these days, I'll be able to rearrange my workshop to have room to take decent photos of my collection too. Bob