Newsgroups: alt.college.tunnels
Subject: CMU Tunnels Hypercard stack (long)
Date: 14 March 1994
Folks,
I found something lying around on one of my old Mac disks that may
interest some of you: an interactive hypercard map of the CMU steam
tunnels. I wrote this stack back in '88 as part of a student
application fair called StraightTalk.
It's very simple, basically a map with hot spots that take you to
pages describing the entrance or tunnel you clicked on. It was
intended to demonstrate how you could do neat things with a Mac in a
short period of time.
It's not up to date, but I thought I would post it just for fun. Those
of you who haven't actually been in tunnels can get a sense of how
they are sometimes laid out, and I thought ex-CMU people might get
kick out of reminiscing about old times.
For current CMU people, you'll note the conspicuous absence of Resnik
Hall & West Wing, the Parking Garage, and anything else that happened
after 1988. Don't take this stack as an authoritative reference, but
as a peek into the mid/late 80's CMU culture.
The StraightTalk fair was officially sponsored, and no, I didn't get
into any trouble for presenting this stack. I thought I would, and
held my breath when a couple of Security folks came over, but nothing
happened. Apple even had a photographer take pictures of all the
presenters, including some of me near a tunnel entrance! I never saw
the pictures, though... :(
Anyway, here's the stack (called "Tunnels"). Remove everything above
the "this file must be converted with binhex 4.0" line and then run it
through binhex.
Feel free to pass this on to other folks, put it on servers, ftp
sites, etc. If you do, please send me a note letting me know so I can
have a feel for its distribution. Ideally, I'd like it if the text
portion of this message was included as a readme file so new folks
would know some of the history.
Enjoy,
Dennis
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Dennis Moul Telecommunications Program
School of Library and Information Science
University of Pittsburgh