I attended Vista at both locations the main building and the basement of the former Ross store. The new building was a mess, half finished, poorly designed and with the video studio poorly built. Thanks for the info on the 1620. Petals is such a vast organization it's entirely possible some 1620 lurks in some dark, dank unfinished space.
Sent from my iPhone > On Aug 28, 2015, at 11:05 AM, Fred Cisin <ci...@xenosoft.com> wrote: > >> On Thu, 27 Aug 2015, Kevin Tikker wrote: >> I went to both Laney and Berkeley City College so you may have a clue. >> Thank you > > 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 ci...@xenosoft.com > >
