RE: Project Delta...

[Ken Polleck <kpolleck@us.ibm.com>]

Thanks...I was, of course, more kidding than serious.  I've
found that I have some of the most programming experience
of any of my peers!!!...too bad I'm "wasting" it on a
management position...  :-).

It would be great if your list had our company names and short
job descriptions.  For those of us in the computer industry,
it's always great to have extra contacts.

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



Bob.Mader@digital.com on 04/23/98 10:32:01 AM
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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
 Phone:  [deleted]



 n3lym@amsat.org on 04/22/98 08:18:03 PM
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 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
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 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]