Jeff, hopefully you'll keep (at least) lurking here.

Gilles Schipper 
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On 2013-08-13, at 2:20 PM, Jeff Kell <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Just wrote this up for our campus newsletter.  What a ride!
> 
> Jeff
> 
>> A looooong time ago, an eternity in the fast-paced evolution of
>> computers in the information age, UTC acquired their first
>> Hewlett-Packard 3000 minicomputer with the intention of doing "online
>> registration" of classes and processing of student grades.  The
>> current system at the time involved an IBM mainframe, punched cards,
>> and long lines at Mac Gym for class registration.  The first online
>> registration was in the Spring of 1977 and it was carried off without
>> a hitch.  The business affairs of the university -- from registration,
>> grades, financial aid, housing, parking, accounts receivable, "RAP
>> sheets" (Report of Academic Progress), and transcripts -- were carried
>> out by various models, upgrades, and replacements of the original
>> HP3000 until it began to approach retirement by adoption of Banner in
>> 2007.  Over the summer, the last remaining functions of the 3000 have
>> been replaced by newer hardware/software, and the system is due to be
>> shutdown later this year.  No one could have predicted a computer
>> system to have played such a prominent role for thirty six years.  How
>> old is your "obsolete" phone?  :)
> 
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