10 Jul
2013
10 Jul
'13
1:14 p.m.
From: Bob Brown
Sent: Tuesday, July 09, 2013 12:19 PM
I've been trying to figure out the type of
terminal I first used at the
Rolling Meadows Public Library in the mid 70's to dial into the local HS
district's hp2000 timeshare system...and this digi-log may be similar.
bbrown at harpercollege.edu #### #### Bob Brown -
KB9LFR
Harper Community College ## ## ## Supervisor of Operations
Palatine IL USA #### #### Saved by grace
Was that before or after the split of District 214 into 214 and 215? When
I graduated from Arlington High School in 1969, Rolling Meadows was part
of the same district, and the Computer Math (i.e., FORTRAN IV) class was
taught using the 1401 at the school district building near the Mt. Prospect/
Des Plaines city limits line. Monday and Thursday evenings down Northwest
Highway.
(Lemme see, Arlington, Prospect, Rolling Meadows, Elk Grove, Palatine,
Fremd, Wheeling and Buffalo Grove, if I remember the flags on the gym wall
correctly. Hersey and something to the south came into being my senior
year. That was District 214. Lots of people I knew went to Harper as a
start on their college careers.)
The next year, 3 of the schools in the district got 1620s (a good friend
who was a year younger was the operator for the one at Arlington). By
the mid-1970s, I was out of touch with anyone in that area and don't know
how things developed, though I did hear about the district split from a
freshman at Ohio State when I was a senior (1975).
HP 2000, hmm? We're in the middle of putting a 21MX and a later 1000 into
service at the museum.
Rich Alderson
Vintage Computing Sr. Systems Engineer
Vulcan, Inc.
505 5th Avenue S, Suite 900
Seattle, WA 98104
mailto:RichA at vulcan.com
mailto:RichA at LivingComputerMuseum.org
http://www.LivingComputerMuseum.org/