OFF TOPIC: Spring Break, 1947

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2 total messages Started by hanc... Tue, 03 Apr 2018 21:14

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Author: hanc...
Date: Tue, 03 Apr 2018 21:14

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OFF TOPIC

So often the topic of movies and TV, even a TV series, LIFE
magazine looked at college spring break in California.

https://books.google.com/books?id=fUgEAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PA136&dq=life%20%22spring%20vacation%22&pg=PA136#v=onepage&q&f=false

Re: OFF TOPIC: Spring Break, 1947

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Author: Anne Lynn Wheeler
Date: Tue, 03 Apr 2018 21:46

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spring break, 1969 ... i was asked to give 40hr computer class to new
group that had been formed to start Boeing Computer Services
(consolidate dataprocessing into indepedent business unit to better
monetize the investment, including offering services to non-Boeing
entities ... Renton datacenter had something like $200M-$300M IBM
mainframes, 360/65s were arriving faster than they could be installed,
boxes constantly staged in the hallways around the machine room).

I had taken a 2hr computer intro class and within year was hired
fulltime to be responsible for univ admin & academic production
mainframe systems ... and was still going to school parttime.

At end of spring semester, then Boeing hires me fulltime to be part of
the BCS group (near the CFO office, who was runnign the BCS effort,
across from Boeing Field, a dozen or so desks in large room that had
previously been filled with drafting tables). CFO battles with head of
Renton datacenter ... since when I started, CFO only had a 360/30 used
for payroll ... although space was added for 360/67 for me to play
with).

-- 
virtualization experience starting Jan1968, online at home since Mar1970

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