Fuller Labs

Our next stop was Fuller Labs - a site of particular interest to me, since I had spent so much of my life hunched over computers in its labs and nodding in desks in its classrooms. The garden lab, the zoo lab - these places had been the center of my existence for a long time. Are the workstations in the CCC still named after things from "The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension"?

(Students stare with the intensity of
deep thought at the screens of workstations. In the background, a
wall forms a huge rectangular matrix of alphabetized wooden pigeon
holes: a physical machine implementing a hash function for the
delivery of printouts to named users.)

The CCC - same as it ever was.

I was told that, as the population of Computer Science (CS) major had expanded over the years since my graduation, so had the CS department's facilities. Some of the labs I remembered had been moved to other buildings. Even the Operating Systems (OS) lab - a basement room full of dust, angst, and aging DECStations, was gone. Not everything stays the same, it seems.

(A dark hallway of grey cement and
cinderblock stretches into the distance. Cable runs and steam pipes line
the ceiling, shipping boxes are scattered along the walls.)

The basement hall that once lead to the OS lab - a place that is no more.

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