september shadows

Shadows on downtown Portland's mod 60's Data Processing Building, the low & mostly windowless building attached to the Wells Fargo Center by a groovy skybridge.

This building would have originally held a ginormous mainframe computer, water cooled, with an insatiable appetite for punchcards, its every need attended to by the high priesthood of the Data Processing Department. And raw processing power dwarfed by that of a modern-day iPod. But at least they built an interesting building to hold it. That tends not to happen in the 21st century, although on the flip side modern IT departments no longer have theological aspirations. Or at least nobody outside IT buys into them anymore.