Campus 1976 - 77

[CajunAmos]

The old charity hospital was located on St Mary diagonally across from Olde Tyme Grocery. The University traded with the State the property the Charity Hospital was on for the property that UMC is on now. The trade was made with the stipulation that the new hospital would be named University Medical Center. You can imagine the hubbub that caused with the LSU people and the state legislature( They though USL wanted to start a Med School). Sometime about that time Dr Authemant and Dr Oliver decided USL would get the biggest computer available. That's when they got the Honeywell MULTICS computer system. Only about 6 were built at the time. 3 or 4 were at the Pentagon another at MIT and the final one was here at USL. And that was the start of the computer science school. LSU did not have Computer Science at the time but after our school got so big and so good they had to have one too. Imagine that.

I had always heard that it was donated to the University by NASA via an USL graduate working there. Not true?

[barisaxman]

The old charity hospital was located on St Mary diagonally across from Olde Tyme Grocery. The University traded with the State the property the Charity Hospital was on for the property that UMC is on now. The trade was made with the stipulation that the new hospital would be named University Medical Center. You can imagine the hubbub that caused with the LSU people and the state legislature( They though USL wanted to start a Med School). Sometime about that time Dr Authemant and Dr Oliver decided USL would get the biggest computer available. That's when they got the Honeywell MULTICS computer system. Only about 6 were built at the time. 3 or 4 were at the Pentagon another at MIT and the final one was here at USL. And that was the start of the computer science school. LSU did not have Computer Science at the time but after our school got so big and so good they had to have one too. Imagine that.

That was when I started at USL in Fall '75–It was SO high tech back then! I remember my term project in my COBOL class was a program where you could enter the price of a new car, your down payment, and the interest rate, it would figure out your monthly payments—BADDASS, Huh?? 😁
Does anyone else remember waiting in line at the terminal room til after midnight to get on one of these?!? 🙀

[HelmutVII]

I had always heard that it was donated to the University by NASA via an USL graduate working there. Not true?

I really don't know for sure. I do know that Dr Jim Oliver was one of the spearheads for computer science.

[HelmutVII]

That was when I started at USL in Fall '75–It was SO high tech back then! I remember my term project in my COBOL class was a program where you could enter the price of a new car, your down payment, and the interest rate, it would figure out your monthly payments—BADDASS, Huh?? 😁
Does anyone else remember waiting in line at the terminal room til after midnight to get on one of these?!? 🙀

I started with waiting for key punch machines then waiting for a MULTICS terminal. Both at Martin Hall.

[Turbine]

Great thread

[CajunVic]

And Congress street ended at Bertrand. Parking was a mess when it rained. There were tow trucks on duty in the parking lot to pull cars out if they got stuck in the mud.

Got a tow from one of those.

[LaCajunsFan]

The Cajundome under construction.

[cypremort]

Live and still do on St. Camille for the last 52 years. Saw Cajun Field go up, plus the Dome and Tigue Moore. Hunted dove where Cajun Field sets. My back yard was the Agriculture Farm where I got all my vegetables, greens, corn, tomatoes, bell peppers, potatoes, beans, okra, watermelon and
cantaloupe sometimes......living in the country was great back then....

Lived on St. Camile (608) while in graduate school.

[Ragin9221]

The Cajundome under construction.

I like that! Pretty cool

[RaginFan2]

I had always heard that it was donated to the University by NASA via an USL graduate working there. Not true?

I think that NASA donated an accelerator ("atom smasher").

[Frenchie35]

The Cajundome under construction.

Sitting in my back yard watching them remove that "Key Stone Circle" supports after they had all the roof steel rafters connected to the circle. They remove each one like tighten a lug on a tire. 12-6, 9-3 etc. Ready with my camera if it decided to come down. Remember driving to Alabama, you could see some of the trucks delivering parts of the structure. I guess most if not all was built at an Alabama plant.

[Frenchie35]

Lived on St. Camile (608) while in graduate school.

Hell, that's right across the street from me. What year? I remember most who lived at that address. Renters for the pass 40+ years. The Luke's were the last owners. Sold it and moved to Lake Charles. Took me several years before I forgave them for that misdeed, but I did.