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50 Years Ago

March 27, 1956

Carnegie Tech received a computation center! No, it was not in Cyert Hall. The “center” was described as “a huge mathematical processing machine.” Its skills included “adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing almost instantaneously.” Finally, a way to replace my TI-89!

25 Years Ago

April 7, 1981

The University Planning Office unveiled plans to make improvements to campus. They included new renovations, lighting changes, and landscaping changes. Little did the University Planning Office know that 25 years later we would be graced with the greatest landscaping change of our time. That’s right... it’s big, it’s ugly, it symbolizes one man’s desire to use his power to place an architectural...

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