What's New

A Timeline for Updates to the Site

July 2025 -  Jim Holmes (BSEE'1977), graciously donates a large collection of scanned manuals and documentation from his time at Purdue. These are documents that he collected and saved and later digitzed. The Documents section is reorganized to accomodate this large donation of historical material. Historical computing events from the Engineering Computer Network are added to the Timeline. Some minor changes are made to the site template and edits to several or the page descriptions.

February 2025 - A few additional stories are added and updates to sveral recent timeline events.

October 2024 - A few additional photos added, and some additions and corrections to the timeline. 

July 2024 - Additions and corrections made to the home, timeline, and people pages. 

December 2023 - Additions and corrections made to the timeline.

September 2023 - Updates to the list of people provided by Joey Xie (Pietrzak) 

August 2022 - ACMAINT-related documents donated by Todd Helfter are added to the site.

November 2021 - With gracious thanks to Dennis Ernst, many photos that he took during his time at Purdue are added to the site.

September 2021 - Items collected by Mike Spitzer during his time at PUCC and Purdue are donated and added to the site.

September 2021 - Photos donated by Byron Reed are added to the site.

June 2021 - Preston Smith graciously donates a number of photos that he has collected. Many are early photos taken by George Goble from the 1970s, and document the history of the Computing Center and Purdue campus computing at that time. 

September 2020 - The pucc.me site goes live. Primary updates to the site are completed over the course of about nine months during the COVID-19 pandemic. Numerous files, pictures, and notes that I had been collecting over my time at PUCC are organized and published, with attribution given where known. 

January 2020 - Ben Lewis graciously donates a domain name for the PUCC Archive site. Initial edits to the site begin.