Columbia University Computing History   

Columbia University Machine Room Collage

Computer Center 20th Anniversary collage
Computer Center 20th Anniversary collage
Collage by Bob Resnikoff for the CUCCA 20th Anniversary poster, 1983. Top left: the detached IBM 360/91 console with some of its innards showing underneath, about 1980. Top right: a few of the 2000+ storage cells of the IBM Mass Storage System (MSS, 1982). Bottom left: part of the IBM mainframe disk farm. Bottom right: an operator (Bill Scolazi) at the IBM 7094 console with lots of 9-track tape drives in the background, about 1966. (Not to scale.)
Columbia University Computing History Frank da Cruz / fdc@columbia.edu This page created: January 2001 Last update: 4 April 2021