I ran across this site when googling my own name.  Unlike the other site that charges $10 a year, this one is free and seems to get to the point without a lot of ads and silliness. 

It is really great.  I enjoy reading about everyone who has decided to flesh out their profile.  Many of these people were in other classes and I never knew them at RBHS but I still read about them and how they lived the last 40 or so years.

Please encourage all your old classmates to get their info onto this site.

The only problem I have is some of the history of 1965 seems a little off like this:

"Sony introduces it's doomed Betamax Recorder and Hypertext is introduced for linking test on the Internet."  Betamax was a decade later.  Don't know about hypertext.

Other than that (and it's minor) this site is the best and I thank those who created and maintain it.

Bill Otterson

HI

I agree with all your comments regarding this site. It's great! I'm Tom Garrett, class of 67 and my brother David, was class of 65.

Your comment regarding history is spot on. Hypertext Markup Language (HTLM) was not invented until early 80's. The first email was sent in 1973. The beginning of the internet actually occurred in 1969.

From 1976 until 1980 I was a Titan II Missile Crew Commander. We were the guys sitting ICBM alert. We had a machine that we used to communicate with the command post on our base, and with other launch control centers around the country. It had a keyboard and we received return messages via a thermofax printer. This was before there was anything like it for the home user. Heck, there weren't any home PC's at that time.

I bought a Beta Video camera in 82 and it weighed a ton and had to carry a portable recorder and battery pack slung over my shoulder.  What a pain in the butt.

Tom

Tom:

I'm an old SAC guy too, a former navigator on KC-135s (1975-1992).  I actually used a PC for the first time in 1979 as part of an early SAC celestial navigation training system.  The PC was a Northstar Horizon, and it had one application, the celestial navigation trainer.  You had to insert a seven-inch floppy each time to boot, and then another one to start the program.   At the time, it was like seeing the future. I got my first e-mail account in 1983 as a new employee at Digital Equipment Corporation (Since absorbed by Compaq/HP). It was internal to the corporation, and I remember being amazed I could actually exchange e-mails with someone in Europe. Then I found out that with a couple of commands, I could go beyond the corporate net, but there was hardly anybody else out there to e-mail: Kind of like those late 1930s TV broadcasts that were viewed by something like 200 TV sets in NYC.  

I went to work for a large insurance company in 1969.  They had a massive "cool room" that housed it's massive computer system.  If I remember correctly, they had reel to reel tapes or something like it at that time.  Techs wore white coats and even booties.  Things have changed.  In 1975, I also remember seeing my first VCR.  It was the size of a office desk.  I was informed by the owner that the VCR was invented in the US and then sold promptly to the Japanese for development.  Alittle bit (a very little) of tech trivia.