RE: Project Delta...

[Bob Mader <Bob.Mader@digital.com>]

Hi Ken,

> ...One might wonder how much
> the innovation of letting 1970's high school students play
> with computers led to computer careers.

It really did. At one point (before all the layoffs in the early 90's),
there were no less than eleven former Deltoids employed at DEC. Sadly, today
there are only three left (Tony Eros, David Corbishley, and me). As for IBM,
Gary Luckenbaugh used to work for them until the division he was in was
acquired by Loral in 1994. And there are lots of other Delta alumni at high
tech companies such as Apple, NeXT, Microsoft, Oracle, NASA, and various
startups, not to mention those who have settled into cozy jobs in academia. 

Regards for now... keep in touch...

Bob


	-----Original Message-----
	From:	Ken Polleck [SMTP:kpolleck@us.ibm.com]
	Sent:	Wednesday, April 22, 1998 10:17 PM
	To:	n3lym@amsat.org
	Subject:	RE: Project Delta...

	Thanks for the response.

	I suspect that "Phil Shrohm" is actually "Phil Strohm."
	He has an AOL e-mail, and when I find it, I'll forward your
	note to him.

	I find it truly amazing that I am the only one on the list with
	an "ibm.com" address.  One might wonder how much
	the innovation of letting 1970's high school students play
	with computers led to computer careers.

	Anyway, thanks for taking the effort to put this together!

	Ken Polleck
	kpolleck@us.ibm.com
	Release Manager, PCOMM Development
	Network Computing Software Division, IBM RTP
	F94A/502, PO Box 12195, RTP, NC  27709
	Phone:  (919) 254-0743; Fax:  (919) 254-1190  (Tieline 444); Pager:
(800)
	946-4646 PIN:1448511



	n3lym@amsat.org on 04/22/98 08:18:03 PM
	Please respond to n3lym@amsat.org
	To: Ken Polleck/Raleigh/IBM@IBMUS
	cc:
	Subject: RE: Project Delta...


	Hi Ken,

	Thanks for the reply. The response to my spamming initiative has had
me
	quite overwhelmed. I've gotten in touch with many Deltoids and have
	gathered quite a number of nice stories about those good old days.
	Teresa Green is still alive and well... She was
able
	to help fill in the history of the founding of Delta and the early
	years. It's really amazing what Delta was able to do at that time.
The
	notion that somebody would fund this really expensive computer
system
	and then let a bunch of high school kids loose on the thing. Teresa
	Green pushed hard to make sure that Delta would be run by the
students
	(a radical view both then and now).

	Also have a lengthy unofficial history of the final years from Alan
	Flippen (now working for the NY Times). His story and a few others
tell
	of the more mischievous side that many Deltoids remember fondly.
There
	are several stories of how "so and so" breached system security and
a
	week later, was made a privileged staff member. What an experience.
But
	it's amazing to see how that environment led to the many successful
and
	happy lives of all the Deltoids I have heard from. I think most of
us
	have finally grown up!

	Anyway, I'll have it all compiled in the Delta web site. Hopefully,
	we'll be able to recover some actual files from that time. Remember
all
	those GRIPES and MESSAG.TXT's. And how about the ASCII art library?
	Anyway, here's the list of folks as of this date. Let me know of
anyone
	we may have missed!

	Glad to hear you are doing well!  Regards for now...

	Bob


	DELTA LIST

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	-----Original Message-----
	From: Ken Polleck [SMTP:kpolleck@us.ibm.com]
	Sent: Friday, April 03, 1998 12:54 PM
	To: n3lym@amsat.org
	Subject: Re: Project Delta...

	Wasn't that the name of that University of Delaware system?  I would
	say that I
	"played" more with it than "worked", but, yes, that's me.  (As far
as I
	know,
	there's only one of me spelled this way.)

	I'm now a Senior Development Manager at IBM, Research Triangle Park,
	North
	Carolina, managing two projects called "Personal Communications
	(PCOMM)" and
	"Host On Demand (HOD)."  They are IBM's leading terminal emulators
for
	3270
	(IBM Mainframe), 5250 (IBM AS/400) and VT (everyone else).  PCOMM is
a
	native
	implementation on Windows 3.1, Windows 9X, Windows NT, and OS/2, and
	HOD is a
	Java implementation.

	If you're looking for another ex-Delta person, Alan Flippen...at
last
	check
	(1991), he was doing some journalistic pursuit in Buffalo, NY.  If
you
	have his
	e-mail, let me know.  If you have nothing on him, also let me know;
I
	could
	probably find his 1991 address/phone number.

	Ken Polleck  (I think I was [105,something])
	kpolleck@us.ibm.com
	Release Manager, PCOMM Development
	Network Computing Software Division, IBM RTP
	F94A/502, PO Box 12195, RTP, NC  27709
	Phone:  (919) 254-0743; Fax:  (919) 254-1190  (Tieline 444); Pager:
	 (800)
	946-4646 PIN:1448511



	n3lym@amsat.org on 04/02/98 07:54:40 PM
	Please respond to n3lym@amsat.org
	To: Ken Polleck/Raleigh/IBM@IBMUS
	cc:
	Subject: Project Delta...


	Hi,

	IBM? Could this the same Ken Polleck once who worked at Project
Delta?
	If that's you, please respond with what you've been up to and your
	current vital stats. I'm trying to update the Delta alumni list. I'm
	also hoping to put together a Project Delta alumni web page
including
	various pictures and writings as well as a PDP-11 emulator running
	RSTS/E. If you still have any Delta memorabilia, pictures, or backup
	tapes (I can read them!), please let me know!

	Regards,

	Bob Mader [1,50]