Hello All,

Just one more note about hockey-L history/nostalgia from the early 60s
(I dont have a beard, but my mustache is grey), I recall subscribing to
Don's newsletter roughly from 1980 thru 1990 or so. I have the full year
of the RPI run to the title and still get chills reading it. I had no
idea Bob Stagat was involved in that, in fact, I used to wonder how Don
was able to get all this info when no one else seemed to be able to. I
guess it was folks like Bob. It was a great source of info before the
advent of serious online information.

Yes, Bob, I recall Hollerith cards very vividly. One typo and you tossed
it. If you missed it, your output on Monday morning was zilch. :-) Lots
of fun.  64k machines taking up huge rooms. And tubes instead of
transistors. Wow.

And, yes, I believe hockey-L has not only created some marriages, but
also put old friends back in touch!

Long live hockey-L!

Tony Buffa
RPI '64, U of Ill '66 and '69

Go Red, beat Green!!

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Bob Stagat wrote:

>RPI - ECAC
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>Got my BS there in '64 and PhD in '68.
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>From '65 through '68 I tutored the team in a variety of subjects.
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>I also provided computer support to Don Birkmayer for his Hockey Newsletter.
>Back then the standings and stats provided by the leagues were notoriously
>late and error-ridden, so Don would spend all day Sunday phoning the
>coaches. He'd call me that evening and give me all the weekend's results,
>and Monday morning I'd keypunch them onto Hollerith cards (remember them?),
>
>I moved to Florida, then Texas, then southern California and lost all track
>of college hockey. Until I stumbled across the Hockey-L listserve. And there
>I discoverd a voice from the past -- Tony Buffa. We'd been classmates and
>fellow Physics majors as undergraduates. Unbeknownst to one another, Tony
>had moved to San Luis Obispo in 1970, while I moved to Santa Barbara in
>1972. For the next ~20 years we lived a mere 100 miles apart, but never knew
>about it until we reconnected on Hockey-L!
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