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Post by Jeremy C_88-93 on Jun 29, 2007 17:06:50 GMT -5
No, Roger left the year before me. But I got letters from him I believe as an incoming Frosh. Wasn't he the Treasurer or something? It was likely Dave Boyd that provided the PC.
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Post by Mark Hager 87-91 on Jun 29, 2007 17:26:17 GMT -5
Yeah, I'm trying to just remember a memory of something I wasn't part of anyway, so maybe Roger wasn't involved with getting that community computer in the basement. Thought he was, but maybe not. Possible, too, that there were several computers over the years we were there, including one that Roger mobilized after he actually got to HP. Maybe Chet or Joel remember more about how that original computer got down there.
Anyway, point still that Roger's personal PC in his study room was probably the first for Smith House.
Mark
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Post by frankrmale on Jul 1, 2007 18:00:50 GMT -5
To answer a few of you guy's questions, we still go out to Pillsbury Crossing, and the bottle of Crow is still in the hands of our youngest 21 year-old in the house. In fact, for the summer house meeting on July 14, we will actually be traveling out to Pillsbury with Smurthwaite. Fortunately, no one is practicing the tradition of locking 203's door and using the roof instead to enter.
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Post by Mark Hager 87-91 on Jul 2, 2007 11:33:49 GMT -5
Fortunately, no one is practicing the tradition of locking 203's door and using the roof instead to enter. Frank: You had to be there, my friend. It was one of many bonding times that I had while I was in the house. I haven't experienced anything quite like it since I left. Mark
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Post by Jeremy C_88-93 on Jul 2, 2007 15:20:21 GMT -5
To quote AC/DC: And he's got big balls And she's got big balls But we've got the biggest balls [on the wall]
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Post by Mike DeHaven 88-90 on Jul 2, 2007 22:39:34 GMT -5
I remember someone else having a computer. It was also in the basement, but back in the utility room. I want to say it was Tom's but I don't remember. I don't think it was there the whole time, only toward the end of a spring semester. I remember it well because I spent 36 hours straight on it playing Police Quest after finishing my last final that semester. I can't imagine how many hours of Hack I played, too. I recently found a copy of Sim City that I bought when I was there. I sense a trend here...
I was playing a MUD in one of the computer labs one evening and a guy I was adventuring with was running two characters. I asked him how he did that and he asked me "you got windows?" I looked at the walls in the building and thought "yeah, what's that got to do with it?"
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Post by Jeremy C_88-93 on Jul 3, 2007 2:31:22 GMT -5
ROFL. That's a great intro to Windows story. I don't even recall my first MS Windows experience. But I was introduced without incident to X-Windows in the comp. sci. dept. Then MS Windows was like...meh.
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Post by smurthgirl on Aug 14, 2007 14:47:01 GMT -5
OK, I'm a girl and I don't really belong here, but I spent more time at Smith than Smurth! Actually, I lived at Smith during the summers of '86 and '87. Is the house still co-ed in the summer?
Marshall had the first computer at Smith. I know because I typed many a paper on that PC for desperate Smithies who could not type. It even had a printer! Tracker feed with a daisy wheel. Roger had the 2nd PC.
Chet, I remember riding to Smith with you many a time. You would coast down Manhattan Ave to save gas.
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Post by Jeremy C_88-93 on Aug 15, 2007 17:00:29 GMT -5
Woman on the floor! ;D (Just had to say it) Welcome! Heck, I don't care if Clovia girls start posting if it will get more activity here. (Nothing against Clovia, mind you, we just never had the relations with them that we had with Smurthies) You were just before my time Jill, but I do recognize your name. You probably knew Kristen Good, and Kristal and Libor's sister (what was her name?). I always wondered how she could seem so normal and Libor was so...Libor. Come to think of it, I should go start some stories about him if I haven't already. He was a legend in his own way.
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Post by Mark Hager 87-91 on Aug 15, 2007 17:13:54 GMT -5
Jeremy: Ha, "woman on the floor"... I'd forgotten about that. I'm guessing that Jill was leaving in the spring of 1987, and the three women you mention were just showing up in the fall of 1987. I'm thinking more along the lines of Tiffany (Tritsch) Davidson and Cindy Ellis... you know, the elder women of Smurthwaite.
Hey Jill, we've got a thread here for Marshall stories. You really should go add something to that.
Mark
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Post by Jeremy C_88-93 on Aug 16, 2007 12:11:33 GMT -5
True. Tiff is the only one I know. I didn't recall how much older the others were. Was Libor's sister just a year older than Libor? Who was that girl that Bob Lee always gave rides to on his motorcycle? She was like a Bob groupie or something. Was it Suzanne or something?
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Post by shanerunquist on Aug 16, 2007 17:11:15 GMT -5
Remember the good old days, when all you needed was a credit card to have microbrew beer delivered by mail-order to the house without any proof of age? That was the internet at its finest! Man, you were my hero. That was like the perfect victimless crime, and so easy. I wish I'd thought of it! My favorite traditions included trips to Pillsbury & Wildcat Creek and playing ultimate at the school. Those were all going strong as of '95.
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Post by Mark Hager 87-91 on Aug 17, 2007 10:36:42 GMT -5
Was Libor's sister just a year older than Libor? Good question... of course my memory might be faulty. I was thinking that Libor's sister (Elena? Elana? Alena? Alana?) was my age (showed up in 1987), and I think that you're saying that Libor was in your class (1988). Libor's sister might have been a year older, ie 1986. If so, maybe a tall blonde Czech freshman might ring a bell with Jill. Heck, Kristen or Kristal might even have been a year older than me for all I remember, but I was thinking that they were my age. Mark
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Post by smurthgirl on Aug 17, 2007 14:07:34 GMT -5
I think I'm too old to have crossed paths with most of the smurthies you knew. I graduated in '87. I definitely don't remember a tall blond czech!
Guys at Smith during my time were Arlen Briggs, Carl Rodell, Mark Gabrielson, Chet, Marshall Hensley, Wes Sherman, Bob Lee, Chuck, Roger (Fish), Vern, Chef, Russell Wilson, Jim and Wayne (brothers), Terry Siek, Darren Duffin, and Ocie. I could come up with more names if I really thought about it.
My freshman year was the year that housing closed Smith and the guys lived in two "annex" houses until the alumni could buy the Smith House building.
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Post by Jeremy C_88-93 on Aug 20, 2007 10:10:42 GMT -5
Jill, thanks for the update. I wish someone from that era could post some memories. I'd really like to have some history of the house elaborated on here.
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