Matt
Really, Really OT
If you were a computer geek between 1978 and 1989, then we've probably
met!
Yeah, I know FHS -- Freemont and Saratoga-Sunnyvale.
I and 2 others owned some computer stores, one was 2 blocks away at
Fremont and Mary -- Computer Plus --across the parking lot from the
Velvet Turtle.
You guys (FHS) were behind in some ways, but you had cable TV & VCRs
in every classroom (unique at that time).
There was a teacher there Jerry -- can't remember his last name but, he
was really progressive and liked by the students -- Jerry was trying to
set up a computer lab -- got no support from anybody.
We did some small stuff with FHS, but it never really got going.
Anyway, FHS was in a different district than SHS, with completely
different funding.
But we had several FHS students on our payroll -- between
skateboarding, and Hires graphics they helped sell a lot of computers.
Greg Porter, Joe Wilson come to mind.
A few years after you graduated, Woz tried to donate several million to
Sunnyvale HS (same district) to set up a computer lab,
But, politics got in the way & they could never could figure out what
to do with the money.
You/we grew in the heart of Silicon Valley, when everything was
exciting & new!
Dick
On Saturday, December 7, 2002, at 06:43 PM, Matt Robertson wrote:
> I can't help myself... I have to chime in. Totally OT:
>
> Dick Applebaum wrote:
>> Well, here is the high school that installed the first computer lab
>> network in June 1980:
> <snip>
>> http://www.saratogahigh.org/shs/academics/academics.html
>
> Small world. I graduated from Fremont High in June 1980, which is in
> the same town and high school district as Saratoga High. We were
> pretty
> fierce rivals. At the time all we had was a few Commodore PETs, and a
> LOT of cobbled-together stuff, much of it hand-me-downs from parents
> working in/around HP, Atari, Lockheed, Fairchild et al.
>
> Wasn't it SHS where the entire senior class all got straight F's on
> their report cards cuz persons-unknown broke into the FUHSD system
> and... Tinkered? Was either 1979 or 1980. Killed too many gray cells
> since to remember exactly.
>
> Great time/place to grow up: Sunnyvale CA, right when all that PC
> stuff
> started.
>
> --Matt Robertson--
> MSB Designs, Inc.
> http://mysecretbase.com
>
>
>
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