Title
Physics, class, 1974-75, photo 2
Description
This image shows a man checking information printing out of a teletype machine in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Appalachian State University (1967-current) in 1974-75. The acoustically coupled modem can be seen on the right. The Department of Physics and Astronomy is in the College of Arts and Sciences and maintains the Rankin Science Observatory in Rankin Science Hall, built 1963, and the Dark Sky Observatory, opened 1981, twenty miles northeast of Boone, NC. The Department offers an undergraduate degrees in applied physics and graduate degrees in engineering physics, as well as courses in industrial, chemical, computational, environmental, medical, and radiation safety physics.
Subject
Students
Student Activities
Physics
Appalachian State University
Source
General Picture Files, 2004.040, Box 14, Physics and Astronomy F2, C14.2.3.2.
Publisher
University Archives, Appalachian State University
Comments
Tom Rokoske
The first line of the description does not identify the man nor the process:
The image shows physics student Barry Ritchie plotting data on an X-Y recorder communicating with the main frame computer using a teletype.