IBM 1620

On Aug 28, 2015, at 11:05 AM, Fred Cisin <cisin at xenosoft.com> wrote: If you actually want to follow-up on such tenuous leads, . . . Wil Price would know what happened to the 1620 and 1401. So would Ben Micallef and Jack Olson, but they're dead. I guess that it may have been in the move up onto the hill in 1972? that Merritt switched to DEC. Reliability of the PDP suffered from a bad disk drive, so it was replaced in 1983 with a few RJE terminals and a lot of 5150s. In 1983, the PDP with drive that never worked reliably, was sold to Richmond schools (to pay for 5150s). PG&E didn't fully understand the difference between Delta and Y three-phase. But, in exchange for going along with lie that it "was struck by lightning during installation" (no other lightning strikes within miles for 100 years), PG&E magnanimously (with tax break) bought Richmond schools a new one. Some of the 026 punches and EAM equipment was in the back hallways of Merritt until 1980s. I did not have storage space to save anything, and they tried to fire the guy who pulled the other PDP from the dumpster. I don't know what Laney was using. Berkeley City College didn't exist at that time; it was established later and was known as Vista College until 2006, when it finally got its own building (on Center Street, instead of Milvia). We suggested a delay in the name change from Vista to BCC with both names in use: 1) like a restaurant or retail establishment, a name change simultaneous with a move might save on stationery (which as expected, they didn't replace right away anyway) , but in terms of public, it is more like closing down and a new one opening. THAT was borne out by enrollments. 2) release of Windoze Vista. Our most heavily populated classes were job training for the digital sweatshop, and we could have advertised, "Vista is the best place to learn Vista!" I taught programming in all campuses of Peralta (Merritt, Laney, College Of Alameda, Vista/BCC) from 1981 - 2013. My pension is handled by the state (secure unless Mew Whitman gets elected), but my health benefits are run by Peralta, so kinda risky. -- Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin at xenosoft.com