WPI Hackers of the '70's

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"Back in the days of wooden computers and iron programmers..."
-Professor Norman Sondak

I want to have email addresses and Web page links to the hackers of WPI from the '70's, the golden age of WPI hacking (at least I like to think so). I only want links to folks who were at WPI between 1974 and 1978 (a span of about 10 years, really). Someday the list below may be replaced by the WPI Hackers of the 70's Yahoo group, which lets people modify their own contact info, has chat threads, photo albums, and other fun.

So you say that the logo isn't the right color? I scanned it right from my decsystem10 assembly language handbook, second edition, 1972, that I bought off Marc Ramsey for $5 way back when. You might prefer the KL color scheme, but when I was at WPI, we had the KA, so I'm sticking with the colors of the good old assembler handbook, which in those days, we all did associate with the 10.

If you send me your PPN, I'll add it in.

WPI Alumni can get alum.wpi.edu email addresses from the WPI Alumni Gateway. You can put up a web page there, and even get WPI to serve up your secondary DNS. The WPI Alum Gateway rocks, aej is my hero, he should be yours too.

Please send additions and corrections to trb shift-2 alum.wpi.edu .

Do not send unsolicited mail to people on this list.

Due to an unfortunate incident of spam which can be traced to this list, I have removed the mailto: lines and the @'s too, in order to make it harder for miscreants to find or use these addresses. Sorry for any inconveniences that this has caused.

Addresses prefixed with a ?question-mark were not valid as of September 2004, if you have updates, please let me know.

  1. Al (Nova) Corda - acorda shift-2 relay.nswwc.navy.mil
  2. Al Johannesen [10,13] - aej shift-2 wpi.edu (web)
  3. Alan C. (ABrown, ACB) Brown [1000,7141] - browna shift-2 cna.org
  4. Alan Turniansky [1000,15117] - ?p018501b shift-2 pb.seflin.org
  5. Amancio Hasty - amanciohasty shift-2 comcast.com
  6. Ami Kaplan - ?amib shift-2 iname.com
  7. Amy Sue Chase - amysue1 shift-2 aol.com
  8. Andy (Tribble) Tannenbaum [1000,15074] - trb shift-2 alum.wpi.edu (web)
  9. Ann-Marie Robinson - ?ann-marie.robinson shift-2 sun.com
  10. Ben Thompson - brt shift-2 wpi.edu
  11. Bill Heberling - wheberling shift-2 alum.wpi.edu (web)
  12. Bill Wright - bwright shift-2 wrightsoft.com (web)
  13. Bob (RJA) Avarbock [1000,17053] - rjavarbock shift-2 comcast.net
  14. Bob Sherburne - ?rws shift-2 engr.sgi.com
  15. Bruce MacWilliam - ?bmacwill shift-2 shore.net
  16. C. James Cook - jimcook shift-2 aol.com
  17. Carl Gerstle - cgerstle shift-2 yahoo.com
  18. Carl Zwanzig [1000,32645] - ?zbang shift-2 tuunq.net (web)
  19. Chris Johnson - cjohnson shift-2 tiac.net
  20. Chris Mellgren - chris shift-2 mellgren.org
  21. Craig (Ear) Laub - cblaub shift-2 comcast.net
  22. Dave (Wookie) Bilkis [1000,25611] - wook shift-2 cinenet.net (web)
  23. Dave (Spaceman) Cairns - ?dave.cairns shift-2 mro.mts.dec.com
  24. Dave (Captain) Edgerton [1000,12134] - dave shift-2 edc.com
  25. Dave Galvin - dwgalvin shift-2 wpi.edu
  26. Dave Lounsbury - ?davel shift-2 osf.org (web)
  27. Dave Lyons - ?racerdave shift-2 net1plus.com
  28. Dave Roland - dsr shift-2 sohonet.net (web)
  29. David B. Kinder - dbkinder1 shift-2 msn.com
  30. David (DDA) D'Antonio [1000,17265] - dda shift-2 dantonio.net
  31. David (Grony) Emerson - david.emerson shift-2 clarent.com
  32. David Fox [1000,22727] - fox shift-2 alum.wpi.edu
  33. David Gewirtz - david shift-2 component-net.com
  34. David T. Wolff - dwolff shift-2 panix.com (web)
  35. David (DWass) Wasser - dwass shift-2 dwass.org (web)
  36. Dennis Laliberte - dpl shift-2 metrocast.net
  37. Diane Nakashian - ?nakashian.diane shift-2 adlittle.com
  38. Doug Knowles - dougknowles shift-2 alum.wpi.edu
  39. Don Mastrovito [1000,7672] - don shift-2 papercat.com
  40. Ed Menard - emenard shift-2 alum.wpi.edu
  41. Ed Prentice - egp shift-2 alum.wpi.edu
  42. Eric Hahn [1000,25610][10,46] - eric shift-2 hahnfamily.com (web)
  43. Frank Ries - frank shift-2 fwrnet.com
  44. Fred Fisher - ?fred_fisher shift-2 ag3d.com
  45. Gary Davis - ?gdavis shift-2 loop.com
  46. Gary (Abe) Helmstetter [1000,7464] - gh shift-2 world.std.com (web)
  47. Geoff Matter - ?gmatter shift-2 aurum.com
  48. Geoff (Jeremy) White - l0r3zz shift-2 gmail.com (web)
  49. George Dainis [1000,17263] - gad shift-2 dainis.com (web)
  50. George Kaczowka - gsk shift-2 oldradios.com (web)
  51. George Hill - ahr shift-2 austinhill.com (web)
  52. Glenn Corwin [1000,22554] - glenncorwin shift-2 yahoo.com (web)
  53. Greg Scragg - scragg shift-2 cs.geneseo.edu (web)
  54. Gregory A. (Eh, GAS) Scott RIP [1000,12675][10,33] - greg shift-2 scott.com (web)
  55. Gregory (G, GVW) Walsh [1000,10271][10,27] - gvw shift-2 pacbell.net
  56. Harley Privitera [1000,5455][10,26] - jhp shift-2 pobox.com (web)
  57. Howie Dickerman - howied shift-2 microsoft.com
  58. James Lane [1000,4255] - james~~lane shift-2 alum.wpi.edu
  59. Jeff Deutsch [1000,22256] - jeff shift-2 deutsch.com (web)
  60. Jeff (Whisler) Gunter [1000,14352] - jeffgunter shift-2 usa.net
  61. Jeff Semmel - jsemmel shift-2 alum.wpi.edu (web)
  62. Jill Fabricant Meier [1000,22241] - jill shift-2 insulators.info (web)
  63. Jim Jackson - jjackson shift-2 wpi.edu
  64. Jim McCollum - ?jimmc shift-2 mogul.ultranet.com
  65. Jim (Junior Hacker) Mickol [1000,12477] [10,50] - info shift-2 sevideo.biz
  66. Jim Reith [1000,20161] - reith shift-2 racores.com (web)
  67. John Comeau - jc shift-2 unternet.net (web)
  68. John (JDR) DeRosa [1000,17302] - stugots shift-2 qwest.net (web)
  69. John Griffin [1000,26265] - jgriffin_iii shift-2 hotmail.com
  70. John R. Grout [1000,25613] - j.grout shift-2 computer.org
  71. John M. (JMK) Kennedy [1000,23162][10,45] - kennedyj shift-2 bluewin.ch (web)
  72. John Major - jmajor shift-2 alum.wpi.edu
  73. John Saunders [1000,20221] - john.saunders shift-2 surfcontrol.com
  74. Jon Montague - ?montague shift-2 star.enet.dec.com
  75. Karen Wright - ?kwright shift-2 xenergy.com
  76. Kent (Buck Rogers) Multer - kent shift-2 dallas.net (web)
  77. Kim Mains - kim shift-2 mains.com (web)
  78. Laurie Trask Mann - ?lmann shift-2 city-net.com (web)
  79. Len (Tex, a co-star) Goldberg - len_goldberg shift-2 alum.wpi.edu
  80. Leslie Greenfield Lathrop - leslie shift-2 cognivis.com
  81. Linda McInnis - lindamc shift-2 world.std.com
  82. Marc (TGR) Ramsey [1000,6735] - marc shift-2 ranlog.com (web)
  83. Mark Hecker [1000,17512] - mbh shift-2 charter.net
  84. Mark Pankoski [1000,23472] - mark shift-2 pankoski.com
  85. Matt Ward - matt shift-2 cs.wpi.edu (web)
  86. Megan (Marty) Gentry [1000,14321] - mbg shift-2 world.std.com (web)
  87. Michael (Boom Boom) Butler - mgb shift-2 mitre.org
  88. Michael D. (MDL) Lyons [1000,7646] - mdl shift-2 alum.wpi.edu
  89. Mike Jacobi - ?srubin shift-2 intellution.com
  90. Mike Kenniston [1000,14452] - msk shift-2 xnet.com (web)
  91. Neal P. Murphy [1000,26573] - neal.p.murphy shift-2 alum.wpi.edu
  92. Norman Sondak - norman.sondak shift-2 sdsu.edu
  93. Paul (PC) Cantrell - paul shift-2 copters.com (web)
  94. Ralph Chapman - ralph.chapman shift-2 lucent.com
  95. Randy Blanchard [1000,17124] - blancha2 shift-2 earthlink.net (web)
  96. Ric Haskins - ?haskins shift-2 star.enet.dec.com
  97. Rich Holmes - rsh_wpi shift-2 richholmes.net (web)
  98. Richard P. (RPM) Murray [10,30] - rpm shift-2 alum.wpi.edu
  99. Richard Rupp [10,35] - rrupp shift-2 doar.com
  100. Rick Sysko - wyrm shift-2 madriver.com
  101. Rita Tillson Vasak - rvasak shift-2 houston.rr.com
  102. Robert Milk - robertmilk shift-2 inbox.com
  103. Robert Rouse - robert_k_rouse99 shift-2 yahoo.com
  104. Roger A. Donahue - roger shift-2 wpi.edu
  105. Ron (RTFH) Howard [10,55] - ronh shift-2 ntercept.com (web)
  106. Rory O'Connor - rory_oconnor shift-2 ziffdavis.com
  107. Rose St. Martin Reith [1000,20272] - rreith shift-2 racores.com
  108. Scott McKay - ?swm shift-2 harlequin.com
  109. Scott Saftler - ssaftler shift-2 bsla.com
  110. Scott Shurr - scott shift-2 patton-shurr.org (web)
  111. Sharon Donahue - sdonahue shift-2 wpi.edu
  112. Stephen Uitti [1000,27111] - suitti shift-2 wwnet.net (web)
  113. Steve Alpert - sra shift-2 idx.com
  114. Steve (Cleve) Gregory - usoatsng shift-2 ibmmail.com
  115. Steve Kovner - skovner shift-2 world.std.com
  116. Steve Wolfe [1000,13615] - smw shift-2 world.std.com
  117. Thomas DeBellis [1000,25622] - ?thomas.debellis shift-2 citicorp.com
  118. Tom Fawcett - tom.fawcett shift-2 alum.wpi.edu
  119. Tony Camas - tony shift-2 bosauto.com (web)
  120. Tracy Taylor - tracy_taylor shift-2 bigfoot.com
  121. Wayne Noss - [1000,12533] zkrih shift-2 twelvetribes.com
  122. Wayne Pryor - wpryor shift-2 speakeasy.com
  123. William Ure - [1000,25620] williamure shift-2 hotmail.com
In the Summer of 1997, the WPI Journal alumni magazine wrote a couple of cool feature articles on AEJ and the Golden Age of Hacking at WPI.

Do you remember...

The WACCC hackers still gather together every Wednesday night for WACCC Night at some watering hole in the WPI area. To get on the WACCC Night mailing list, mail to waccc-night-request@wpi.edu (an AEJ alias). If you're dropping in on a WACCC Night from out of town, you might want to mail here too.

Andrew Tannenbaum
 trb shift-2 alum.wpi.edu
Brookline, MA, USA