Nostalgia
Jonathan Hutchins
hutchins at tarcanfel.org
Wed Mar 12 00:52:59 CST 2003
Quoting "Leonard, Phil" <Phil.Leonard at dsionline.com>:
> would happened to have been on the Shawnee Mission School Districts APL
> system would you? We also got direct connections in 1973 or so.
Nope, Vestal Central Schools, upstate New York (Binghamton area), with a link
to a system in RedHook. Just over the hill from my home was the first 360/370
at SUNY Binghamton. I believe the 360/370 series was partially manufactured at
Binghamton. My dad, a lighting engineer with GE, worked on the design of the
photo-etch line for it.
Binghamton was quite the place in those days. We had a major IBM presence,
Singer/Link made things that dads couldn't discuss at the dinner table, and so
did GE. Ansco/GAF was involved with some of the optics work that Singer and GE
weren't discussing too.
Now I understand that the tech industry has all left town, and I imagine the
Endicott-Johnson shoe companies moved overseas long ago. Binghamton's
supposedly been over-run with Crips and Bloods from L.A. and is not a pleasant
place to be these days.
Sorry, we old fogies now return you to the land of free software and 3D gaming.
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