Nice to meet you. Yeah the smell of overcooked circuits down there was
something eh? I forget my room number now but there was something
called the Pyramid next door that was mysterious and hush-hush.
Phil Treleaven was my prof (saw him outside Waterstones last time I
was around ULU so he must still be there).
Haha, yes, the Pyramid was alien technology, but the cover story was that it was a multiprocessor RISC minicomputer. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyramid_Technology When I arrived at UCL, there were three PDP 11/44s of which one (?) was shared by all the undergrads. The pyramid replaced those circa 1987 and was a huge improvement.
If I recall correctly, the main workstation lab was B10A, where I spent a lot of time. Then there was a narrow room, B09 I think, that had mission control on the right hand side with a machine room behind it, and a second machine room on the left side. Can't remember which machine room the Pyramid was in.
