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,

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> 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.

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> 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.

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> The vendor Exhibit was in the QE hotel. It was MUCH smaller in those early

> days.

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> 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.

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> The technical sessions were held at QE convention level, with overflow

> sessions at the adjoining Sheraton.

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> The conference committee:

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> Myself as conference chair.

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> Myer Kwavnick as vice-chair.

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> Jim “Fairch” Fairchild as conference manager.

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> Hank Van Leeuwen – Technical papers chair

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> Helene Quimper – Vendors Exhibits

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> Linda Black – Computer System Manager

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> Sandi Kwavnick – Publications

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> Eric Billington – Audio-Visual

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> Henri Koelblen – Special Events

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> Madeleine Paradis – Special Events

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> Anscar Mantel – Security

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> Gerry Johnson – Swap tape

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> 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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