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 theunit, 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