From ojenkins@mbhs.edu Tue Nov 14 11:42:45 2000
Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 11:01:21 -0500 (EST)
From: Omar Jenkins <ojenkins@mbhs.edu>
To: Justin Osborn <josborn@mbhs.edu>
Cc: Kevin Mernick <kmernick@mbhs.edu>, fogies@mbhs.edu
Subject: Re: Calling all (former) Sysops!

I'm not sure what the Sysop-dom is like right now but I know that when we
were at the old Blair, it came with a feeling of elitism.  We were the
only ones who were allowed to go into the "Sysops Only" area where the
X-terms, goober, and Binx were housed.  The half days during freshman and
sophomore year playing XTank in the back of the room while others toiled
awayon Pascal projects.  Access to the loft was another nice thing thanks
to the comfortable couch.  We had the power to do whatever we wanted to
Binx and the computer lab in general, but we also had the responsibility
and trust that went with it.  Upon graduating from Blair and going to
college and into the work force, I found that most high school would never
have been that trusting of students to run things.  Another memory I have
revolves around Lunch time.  Half the time I would go outside during
lunch and play Ultimate Frisbee with Doherty, Brendan, Luke, and some
other the other sysops, but other times I would hang around the lab doing
voluntary work or finishing up a project.  And on many occations I would
have brough pizza with me for lunch.  I hated cold pizza but Mr. Hammond
wouldn't let me use the sacred microwave to heat it up.  Instead I would
just turn on one of the X-Term monitors in the morning so that by the time
lunch came around it was nice and hot.  Then I'd put my pizza in a bag on
top of the monitor, and the heat/radiation would cook it until the
cheese was slightly melted.  Ahh...  In the computer lab, improvisations
and kludges reigned supreme.


On Mon, 13 Nov 2000, Justin Osborn wrote:

> On Mon, 13 Nov 2000, Omar Jenkins wrote:
> 
> > There are two other things I remember about our normal
> > meetings in the "sysop office."
> > 1. Kevin Doherty always had a 2 litter diet coke he drank from.
> >
> While taking the tour of the old Blair (specifically the attic), there's a
> picture showing a minicomputer with a bunch of empty 2 liter diet Coke
> bottles in front!  I had never been in the attic at the old Blair (much
> less the upperclassmen lab) so taking the tour was pretty cool.
> 
> So far the answers have been great!
> 
> Thanks,
> Justin
> 
> Justin Osborn			"what if there's someone up there?
> Montgomery Blair HS		 shrugs it off with a 
> Class of '01			 'don't know, don't care'
> josborn@mbhs.edu		 hopes to God he doesn't exist
> mbhs.edu/~josborn	 	 but ignorance here is less than bliss"
> mbhs.edu/activities/mblug	 	-The Newsboys

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