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Gordon was THE MAN at Datapoint. I was a field support engineer for Datapoint in the late eighties. One of my larger sites was Bass Pro Shops in Springfield MO. ( the original store). Their call center had not only Datapoint data processing equipment but also a Datapoint phone system (Infoswitch). It was one of the largest Infoswitch installs in the Midwest until we installed the hardware for a switching center in Overland Park KS. for a small long distance phone company named Sprint. We all know how that ended. Corporate greed and the SEC killed Datapoint. It was all about quarterly profits even back then. Too bad ,they had so many other great products no one even knows about now. They were ahead of the times.

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Hello Gordon, and thank you for uploading this relic. I was the young man at this debate providing the comic relief. I was 23 at the time and now I'm 38, about to turn 39 in a few days. I was doing a case study on Farmers Branch for my Economic Development class at UNT, so I decided to insert myself into this debate to immerse myself into the Farmers Branch experience as a whole. It was fun and educational. The civility of the candidates here seems like something of a bygone era.

I was a 35 year old Dispatcher at Datapoint Germany between 1997 - 1999. We supported many companies of FORD with the Arcnet technologie. Unfortunately End of 1999 it died in Germany. Some service technicians survivied with a small new companie "Datacentro". I still have electronical parts, Datapoint balls and frisbee discs :-)

Stumbled upon this accidentally while learning and exploring distributed systems concept. What a fine piece of history.

Thanks for sharing! Best show on the boat

Calidad suprema de los cantantes , la orquesta y la puesta en escena. Todo a la altura de lo que ofrece Royal Caribbean. Espectacular compañía de cruceros. Yo creo que la mejor del mundo.

Andy C (Andrew Cruickshank) is the BEST!!! He made my cruise experience!!! His repertoire is 2nd to none. He's so very soulful!!!

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memories indeed. I was an engineer in the San Antonio facility from 1979- 1987, when I was let go in the 6th round of layoffs after Edelman bought it

Cheesy, but funny.

Simeon is so funny and talented. Had me dying.

What fun!

All this entertainment while there's an ocean being neglected.🤔

A bit of colorful and cheesy entertainment. But it looked like a few performers could have used a little more rehearsal.

Was that an a cappella performance? Outstanding!

Those curtains swaying must show how rough the ocean was. A few times the curtains swayed quite far.

80's music and a bunch of old people walking around. Yup, there's your typical sea cruise. ;)

From Type Writers to PCs and now laptops, palmtops and so on... The world advanced at a rapid rate and the journey of a thousand miles unbelievably began with the single step of the development of the first computer!!

It was wonderful to see how text modifications and all were such a great deal at that time in history. Today we are so used to so many of these features that we often take them as prerequisites. Yet valuable hard work went in to develop them and make them so widely accessible to everyone. Truly amazing.

A really nice video and certainly a good trip down memory lane !!

This is where Kennedy died

Gosh, that was so long ago, I'm surprised that many people are still ambulatory 😁

Thanks for sharing this Gordon!

Hei Gordon !

Hi Gordon !

WOW !!!!! I was there. Worked in Los Angeles. Flew over and over to San Antonio. Players Dungeons and Dragons in Bear County. Worked with Roger Hurr when I was in San Antonio. I was Systems Engineer and programmer. Installed the first ARC Network at the Star Dust Hotel in Las Vegas. Worked on DOS and RMS. 8800, 5500, 6000, Datashare, etc. I was also hardware trained to install and repair all DataPoint equipment. I did hardware and Software Support and programming. Ricky from IBM, Ret(formerly of DataPoint Corp)

5 years later...it looks like the cruise industry is not as attractive...or safe.

You wouldn’t happen to have a video of a girl throwing a guy to the ground from earlier that night, would you?

If Databus happened to be your first programming language you are spoilt for every other one, because Databus is so easy to write, so easy to read, so easy to compile and debug that all other languages come as a repellent shock that puts you off them for life. I taught myself programming in Databus overnight, literally, firstly by trial-and-error, then I read the manual, then I wrote the Answer and Master programs for the ARC that I ran as MIS manager for a power utility in New Zealand in the late 70's and early 80's. Later I wrote AIM-powered host software for the early days of the Internet here.

If I remember correctly it was you, Gordon, who came to my Datapoint ARC at the Waitemata Electric Power Board circa 1980, where I was MIS manager, and there discovered what had been causing problems with CDC drives on ARC's all over the world. But ours was the worst ever, it would not run on an ARC for more than an hour, although stand-alone it was fine. So it pointed to the solution, which was to shield the ribbon signal cable with tinfoil. Has my memory served me correct?