Good one.  I obviously mistyped the first date.  I blame advancing age.


Denys

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Subject: Re: [HP3000-L] 40 Years ago today...

Must have been a 7-year itch to cause that kind of postponement.

Worse than COVID to get from 1983 to 1989.


On 4/24/23 12:16, Denys Beauchemin wrote:
> Hello HP3000-L,
>
>   
>
> 40 years ago today, on March 24, 1989, I opened the 1983 HP3000 IUG 
> Conference in Montréal, Canada.  The conference was held at the Queen 
> Elizabeth Hotel and the adjoining Sheraton Center and ran from the 24 
> to the 29th.
>
> The opening get together was held at the QE hotel on Sunday, 24th 
> April and was hosted by Hewlett Packard.
>
>   
>
> On Tuesday evening, we bused the participants to a sugaring-off party 
> in a nearby sugar shack.
>
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>
> On Wednesday, the keynote address was delivered by Dr. Isaac Asimov.
>
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>
> On Thursday evening, the conference banquet was held at the Olympic Stadium.
> The participants went by Metra to the stadium using tickets that we 
> printed for the occasion.  I believe this was the first time the Metro 
> system accepted tickets that were printed for the occasion by the event itself.
>
>   
>
> The vendor Exhibit was in the QE hotel. It was MUCH smaller in those 
> early days.
>
>   
>
> We produced a swap type on site, in the hastily assembled computer 
> room in one of the conference rooms of the hotel, in which we rolled 
> in an HP3000 Series 33, with printer and tape drive.
>
>   
>
> The technical sessions were held at QE convention level, with overflow 
> sessions at the adjoining Sheraton.
>
>   
>
> The conference committee:
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> Myself as conference chair.
>
> Myer Kwavnick as vice-chair.
>
> Jim “Fairch” Fairchild as conference manager.
>
> Hank Van Leeuwen – Technical papers chair
>
> Helene Quimper – Vendors Exhibits
>
> Linda Black – Computer System Manager
>
> Sandi Kwavnick – Publications
>
> Eric Billington – Audio-Visual
>
> Henri Koelblen – Special Events
>
> Madeleine Paradis – Special Events
>
> Anscar Mantel – Security
>
> Gerry Johnson – Swap tape
>
> Lana Farmery – IUG BoD liaison
>
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>
> After decades of moves and storage, all I have left of this event are 
> a cube, a few badges, and a copy of the conference guide.
>
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>
> Denys
>
>
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