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Photograph taken in the Student Centre, in the KX building, during Winter Madness week

Photograph in the Student Centre KX building during Winter Madness week

Item is a photograph of computer operator Ed McDowell monitoring the 3340 disk drives in the main computer room located on the second floor of building "E". The black device that resembles a curling rock or the Starship Enterprise sitting on top of the drives was a removable disk pack that data resided on and could be removed and replaced within the 3340 drive unit as required.

Item is a photograph of Computer operator Ed McDowell monitoring the high-speed Documentum mainframe impact printer in the main computer room located on the second floor of building "E". This printer could print at a rate of 3000 lines per minute. The blue equipment behind Ed were high-speed disk storage devices.

Item is a photograph of Computer operator Ed McDowell working with Telex magnetic tape drives that were attached to the mainframe computer system. Magnetic tape was used to backup live production data for archival purposes. Backups were taken on weekly, monthly and, annual rotations and stored in a location off-site. In case of a disaster, these tapes could be retrieved from the off-site storage to rebuild lost data files to known points in time and reduce exposure to the college business.

Item is a photograph of Computer operator Ron Graham as he prepares to change the paper in the high-speed Documentum mainframe impact printer in the main computer room located on the second floor of building "E". This printer could print at a rate of 3000 lines per minute and could print on continuous single or multi-part paper, card stock or labels in a variety of sizes.

Item is a photograph of Computer operator Roseanne Bondi answering questions on the telephone while monitoring multiple computer consoles for the IBM 4341 mainframe computer system in the main computer room located on the second floor of building "E"

Item is a photograph of computer operator Roseanne Bondi work with Telex magnetic tape drives that were attached to the mainframe computer system. Magnetic tape was used to backup live production data for archival purposes. Backups were taken on weekly, monthly and annual rotations and stored in a location off-site. In case of a disaster, these tapes could be retrieved from the off-site storage to rebuild lost data files to known points in time and reduce exposure to the college business.

Item is a photograph of Computer operator Roseanne Bondi who is lost among all of the equipment in the main computer room located on the second floor of building "E". This photo shows the computer room during a transition period from one mainframe computer to another which accounts for the large amount of equipment in the room. Older IBM 3340 disk storage devices along the windows are being replaced by new smaller, faster IBM 3370 units in the foreground.

Item is a photograph of Computer operator Roseanne Bondi talking on the telephone in the background of the main computer room located on the second floor of building "E". This photo shows the computer room during a transition period from one mainframe computer to another which accounts for the large amount of equipment in the room. Older IBM 3340 disk storage devices along the windows are being replaced by new smaller, faster IBM 3370 units.