This Is My Glasgow

Strathclyde University's Livingstone Tower in Glasgow. Built in the 1960s, it was designed in an International Modern style by Covell, Matthews & Partners.

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Apr 17 at 4:01pmWeb
Show threadStewart RussellApr 17
@thisismyglasgow I may have spent many hours in the Unix lab on the 12th floor, absolutely not borrowing logins from my friends...
Show threadCowlet5d ago
@scruss @thisismyglasgow The 12th floor Unix lab was amazing! Quieter than the PC labs, so you could always camp out all day
Show threadStewart Russell5d ago
@cowlet it ran a Sequent Unix server plus serial terminals when I was there. For some reason I always used the stairs to get to it
Show threadCowlet5d ago

@scruss By my time it was half DEC Alphas and half SPARCs. Fun times ☺️

Taking the stairs is hard core! I did once, and never again 😅

Show threadStewart Russell5d ago
@cowlet we had Sun 3s and Atari STs in Mech Eng. Once postgrad, you could use one of the Silicon Graphics workstations but only after (true story) you let one of the profs beat you at Dogfight.
(He was a weird cat even by engineering prof standards)
Show threadCowlet5d ago
@scruss Haha, I’ve not heard that story before! I guess Mech Eng lore didn’t make it to CES students 😂
Show threadStewart Russell5d ago

@cowlet probably for the best. Dude was a genius but probbo af. You had some nice weirdos in CES, and I was chased out the 12th floor lab by several of them

MechEng briefly had an Atari ABAQ, a multiprocessor Transputer thingy, but no-one could understand it. A shame, because massively parallel was going to be the future of structural analysis. (Then again, so was cubic zirconia for car engines, so)

Show threadConor Mc BrideApr 17
@thisismyglasgow See also https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nu_xavZuKo4 (oh, and by the way, Strathy doesn't own it; it's leased from the council, which is why the bogs are still as awful as they were in 1962).
STARRING Livingstone Tower

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Show threadCalumApr 17
@thisismyglasgow Pretty much lived on the top floors for the last couple of years of my Computer Science degree.