desktop publishing? e-mail? digital cameras? are you kidding me? the ‘80s in E Block were a different technological era. It still staggers me to have been witness to such dramatic changes in such a “short” time – erm, well, you know what I mean. Let me paint you a few word pictures of life in the class of ’86:
• smoking in class (we were kicked out into the hall in second year)
• manual typewriters on each desk
• special “word-processing” classes, taught on Wang systems which occupied their own special lab across campus
• pmt cameras and waxers for laying out print ads
• splicing audio tape
Our beloved E block – now a parking lot on Woodroffe campus – was home to not only to a few hundred students, but to an assortment of mice, squirrels, and other vermin who took advantage of the fact that the building had long since come to the end of its useful life. We persevered for a few years, huddling under tarps when it rained and occasionally having to evict unwelcome visitors who invaded file drawers and overhead crawlspaces every summer while the staff was away. Needless to say, we all cheered the arrival of the new media building when it finally arrived.
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