The Kermit distribution area, back of 7th floor Watson lab, 1986.
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This is an illustration by George Ulrich from
Kermit, A File Transfer Protocol showing what became of
IBM's raised-floor machine room in the back of the 7th floor of Watson Lab,
which had originally housed an IBM 1620. On the
right you can see the 9-track tape drives from the VAX-11/750, and just left
of them a VAX-11/730 (perhaps the slowest computer ever made), which were
part of the Hermit grant, but were also used to
cut Kermit tapes. The original Kermites were young parents, and also not
exactly neatness fanatics. About 1992, the room was demolished and
partitioned into offices for the networks group; the Kermit room moved to
the penthouse (former cafeteria and, later,
ping-pong room).
