I've seen John Godfrey twice since, the first time some time in the early to mid 80's and the second and last time in the late 90's. By then he had moved away from that house he had just a couple blocks from the campus and had a nice place in a nice looking older neighborhood up on a wooded hill in Swissvale. As I was a road warrior and US Air had a hub in Pittsburgh, sometimes when I was waiting for the outgoing plane I would call him and occasionally got him but its been over 10 years now since I did that. Although I've been in Pittsburgh several times since, the limited time I had and other things on the agenda kept me from trying to contact him.

Hi All, Here is a photo of of John Godfrey clowning around in the CS computer room. You can see a couple PDP-10 consoles as well as a lot of DECTAPE drives in this photo as well :-) I've seen John Godfrey twice since, the first time some time in the early to mid 80's and the second and last time in the late 90's. By then he had moved away from that house he had just a couple blocks from the campus and had a nice place in a nice looking older neighborhood up on a wooded hill in Swissvale. As I was a road warrior and US Air had a hub in Pittsburgh, sometimes when I was waiting for the outgoing plane I would call him and occasionally got him but its been over 10 years now since I did that. Although I've been in Pittsburgh several times since, the limited time I had and other things on the agenda kept me from trying to contact him. 73, Chris Hausler

This photo, in addition to a second view of Carol at the left of the photo shows Paul Newbury, a man several of us know. I first met him as I believe all Athenians did at WRCT. By the time I started working for the CS Engineering Lab in summer 1970, he was the "lab manager" or some title like that. He was still that in 1976. About 10 years or so ago at homecoming, "Scotch & Soda" was having a big reunion. Paul had been quite involved in Scotch & Soda and thanks to him I became briefly involved as well as one of his helpers. Anyway I attended this reunion and Paul was listed as planning to attend but I never did find him. However, it was quite a zoo and even if he was there I might have missed him.

Hi All, This photo, in addition to a second view of Carol at the left of the photo shows Paul Newbury, a man several of us know. I first met him as I believe all Athenians did at WRCT. By the time I started working for the CS Engineering Lab in summer 1970, he was the "lab manager" or some title like that. He was still that in 1976. About 10 years or so ago at homecoming, "Scotch & Soda" was having a big reunion. Paul had been quite involved in Scotch & Soda and thanks to him I became briefly involved as well as one of his helpers. Anyway I attended this reunion and Paul was listed as planning to attend but I never did find him. However, it was quite a zoo and even if he was there I might have missed him. 73, Chris Hausler

After that visit in 1976 I was never able to get either Pat or Russ to come to a homecoming even though at least one of Russ' sons attended CMU. I tried to get an ASDG reunion idea going sometime in the 80's but that never came off either but I only contacted a few people. Oh well...

The last time I saw Russ Moore was in the late 80's at his house. I had visited with him a number of times from the early 70's to the late 80's when I was in the Boston area to see either DEC or DG about something. I did trade emails with him half a dozen years ago but have not heard from him since. I did send him that Christmas photo along with an email a few weeks ago but have not heard anything. He does have a modest web page, < http://www.moorelabs.com/index2.html

Chris, I'm glad you had your camera and documented these things from 40 years ago to jog my memory. Do you remember the time we went flying to photograph the solar eclipse? John Godfrey was the pilot, Pat Stakem, you and I went along to take pictures with the home made Waterhouse stops on our lenses. I believe it was March and we hit a freak snow storm. The wings were icing up. John had new glasses and was fighting vertigo and had to call the tower and get the owner of the airport to fly on our wing to get us back down (visibility zero). To make matters worse, once we got back down we stopped at someone's apartment for coffee (maybe John's) and while we were inside someone broke into the car and stole all of camera gear. I don't think any of us came away with any pictures that day. Do you remember when that was? Could this have been the same March that you show from 1967?

Somewhere around here I also have a couple of the RACE cards. One card looks pretty much like the ones shown in your pictures. The other card is scrunched up like and accordion -- this was the product of a miss-read and the operator re-initiating the operation without actually looking at the machine. Don't know if you saw these things in action but they looked like a mechanical disaster about to happen. The magazines that held the cards were at one end of a very large machine and the drum that read them was at the other. I seem to remember them as being quite large with long tracks for transport of the cards from the end with the magazines down one side and a similar track for putting back the cards one read. The cards would wear out and they would get dropped in the channel. As I recall the operator couldn't see the RACE units from his desk and on occasion (or may be this happened when an new operator was being trained on the system) he would respond to the error showing on his console with a command that resulted in initiating a new read request. The machine was smart enough to report that the read had not completed but not that the card had been dropped in the channel. The new request would result in the next card being fetched from the magazines at the rear of the unit, running down the channel (at what seemed like a much too fast to fast for the design to rationally handle) and smacking into the previously dropped card. This would result in significant down time to tear down and repair the unit. There were two RACE units and I kept my stuff duplicated on both drives.

My son Steve was over and I showed him the pictures and he explained how the campus had changed even since he was there. He also pointed out his apartment in the building next to the football field where the band would practice all too loudly.

Yes Jayne and I had an apartment in the building next where Chris and Pat had theirs on Rippy Street. It was on the 2nd floor. Jayne used to park her car in the driveway on the side of the building. One time the tenants on the 3rd floor decided to drain their water bed and the hose the stuck out the window wound up filling her car with water. Ahh the memories.