(I've linked to the native-res version of the photo, on the off chance that someone out there is so bored they're curious about the stuff on the shelves. Sorry about the glare on the pictures, it was late afternoon and that wall faces to the west.)

In the course of unpacking those boxes, I ran across my copy of the Undocumented Features Deluxe Edition.

I should probably explain. The Deluxe Edition was a fancier hardcopy of the original, no-second-title core story. We made a handful of them, by hand, in late 1991 for ourselves and a few close associates. Basically, I dumped the original text into a slightly more elaborate word processor than the one we used to write the USENET version, dressed the text up a bit, and printed it on the laser printer in the CCC, then edge punched it and put it in a three-ring binder, along with a few illustrations judiciously chosen from the... oh... 20 or so that existed on the WPI anime-art FTP site at the time. Cover sheets were made by hand, by taping printed labels onto a couple more such artworks. Add a couple of little bonus items and a dedication page after the glossary, and Bob's your uncle.

I thought this would be of interest here because one of the bonus items at the end, after a photocopy of the then-current WPI campus map, was a hand-drawn plan diagram of the Wedge as it existed at the time.

I should note that this is only very abstractly to scale (it's really a bigger space than that relative to, say, the support columns), and it omits a few details (the tables in the Wedge Booths, for instance, are not shown for some reason). Still, it gives a reasonable sense of where the facility's main features were, relative to each other if nothing else. I thought it might be fun to share it.

It's very different now, I understand. The Lower Wedge (which used to be a sort of low-rent function room) is gone altogether; it's been converted into the CCC's network operations office and something called the Access Grid, which I'm guessing is much less interesting than it sounds, while the Wedge proper has a lot less of that suburban bus station vibe.

--G.
-><-
Benjamin D. Hutchins, Co-Founder, Editor-in-Chief, & Forum Mod
Eyrie Productions, Unlimited http://www.eyrie-productions.com/
zgryphon at that email service Google has
Ceterum censeo Carthaginem esse delendam.