Comments on: mmm… vintage Ohio State commercial…

By: bup bup bup

bup bup bup — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 03:59:20 +0000

ideally some rich alumni should get that thing running again and just let it roam campus

By: Max Power

Max Power — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 20:01:21 +0000

I would like to think that OSU was investing in transformers in the 80s. That is the best possible explanation for that huge device shown at the 15 second mark.

By: that

that — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 19:49:32 +0000

I posted a message, but I got an error and don’t really feel like re-typing it.

This is my favorite OSU commercial that I can remember:
http://www.osu.edu/features/2006/gameday/

By: Joe Fox

Joe Fox — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 19:46:17 +0000

That large contraption was built by the mechanical engineering department as a project for a national competition sponsored by NASA. It sat, in its component pieces, in the basement of Baker Systems Engineering for almost a decade before it was carted out and pitched.

My office was in the Journalism Building, just across the street, and I remember it being carried out of there. HUGE device.