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Hi Catherine,
My dad wrote “APL PLus, an Interactive Approach”, and also worked with Larry Breed and Ken Iverson. We lived in Yorktown Heights, NY… my dad worked first for IBM and then was one of the founders of Scientific Time Sharing Corporation with Dan Dyer and Larry Breed. (My father’s name is Allen Jay Rose.) I stumbled across your project because I could never understand what exactly my father did, and only now at the age of 46 is it dawning on me how brilliant and complex a man he was and still is. I was a film major at NYU and have been looking to get involved with a meaningful project for years. (Currently I’m an education consultant after having been a teacher for several years). At any rate, if you want to contact me, please feel free. I bet my dad would be willing and interested to contribute whatever information he has for you.
Judy Rose Applebaum
Hi Judy,
I’ll most likely be in NYC this fall and would love to meet you for coffee.
I do know who your dad is, in fact, Phil Last of the British APL Association passed me a note back in May 2010 that originated from one of your dad’s colleagues. The note contained an anecdote about how they were one of the first to look at the numbers coming off the American Stock Exchange and analyze them for regulatory compliance back in the early 1970′s.
If you want to write a guest blog post about what you have learned about all of this, me know and I look forward to meeting you in person this fall.
My father Robert(Bob) Jacoby ,also worked at STSC[FMC,IBM,CUC.....].
I remember and was so excited when amber monitors replaced paper[NY.[STSC?] Not Phila?]. But , this was many years later. If my memories are correct, my older brother and younger sister and I, we the first to test the interoffice phones at the offices in Bethesda Maryland.
There was a terminal in our basement, a modem with suction cups to connect the phone and I had my own workspaces.
I remember my Dad getting his workspaces on mylar which included his tool box of programs. I have a ‘Certificate’ from Computer Learning Center Operations , and know how to mount a tape reel, as an adult. Yet finding any of my Dad’s old code and any of the old companies….might be more fun than I realize.
I learned APL from “APL an Interactive approach” in the 70′s when I was a child. And learned Basic, later in 7th grade. I believe I met ‘Al’ Rose at the 1984 APL conference, my Dad and ‘Al’ seemed to be friends. Now I understand they may have worked together at STSC. I found this page while looking for old Quad Arbin codes. I was at Comdex one year in the 80′s with “Image” games [my Dad had to escort me because I was not 18.
I am very proud of what my father and I have done with APL and computers.
It will be more interesting to keep in contact with the many great people I have had the pleasure of meeting.
Let alone the fun I would have creating a virtual resume of all the company’s My father and I have worked.
Or an interactive resume of the combinations of where everyone has worked…Forgive me if I rarely went to ‘Head Hunters’ ; that’s how my Dad got to work for Fancy companies.