Ahhh Denys,
We will always be young at heart, the excitement about what we could do with MPE and the people involved will always keep us young….!
Can’t believe I will be 75 next month….
Take care,
Eric Sand
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> On Apr 24, 2023, at 9:54 AM, Denys Beauchemin <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> Good one. I obviously mistyped the first date. I blame advancing age.
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> Denys
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> From: HP-3000 Systems Discussion <[log in to unmask]> On Behalf Of Tracy Johnson
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> Subject: Re: [HP3000-L] 40 Years ago today...
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> Must have been a 7-year itch to cause that kind of postponement.
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> Worse than COVID to get from 1983 to 1989.
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> 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.
>>
>>
>>
>> Denys
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