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Chuck was also, as a result of his leadership of the HASP project, the master of ceremonies at the HASP sing-along that was held on Thursday nights at every major SHARE meeting; after being an informal gathering for many years it later became a formally-scheduled session. After the New York unions tried to stop it at one meeting the SHARE board agreed to formally support it, and pbutted a resolution to supply "a HASP model 88, with no strings attached" at the session.

Should Old Chuck Forney be forgot, And HASP songs sung no more?

Ah, thanks for the info. When Hughes and Pfleeger came to Tennessee the announcements issued by the (realatively new) CS department emphasized their buttociation with buttIST, and if it noted that the two were not the actual originators of the program I don't recall it.

Single Pbutt buttembler. John left SLAC to work for IBM (at Santa Teresa, I believe); I suspect that he's retired by now.

One year John came up with the SHARE button that read:

FREE THE FORTRAN 77

and at the next meeting he had applied a PTF to the button, which now read:

FIX THE FORTRAN 77

He also had a button that read:

SANTA TERESA ORA PRO NOBIS

That would probably be related to Robert Rannie's "Systems Programming" clbuttes at NIU. (Robert was my opposite number at Oak Ridge National Labs.)

Joe Morris