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Before
moving on to the new part of the science center, I looked into a
familiar room in Wright. A physics lab course meets here.
But notice all the computers sitting around! Back when I was a
student, there was only one computer in the whole building, an IBM
mainframe which took up a good part of the basement.
These
tables are empty at the moment, but a student tour guide showed me
all kinds of interesting equipment in smaller, specialized labs,
including an X-ray diffraction device and an experimental setup for
fabricating thin-film solar cells.

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