Computer Report

May 15, 2001. Problems with our server have caused an amount of internet havoc for the past three days! Gary Sheffen will work on it tomorrow morning. Today's VARgrade workshops went well after we were able to reboot the server. Our weather-cam for the weather station has arrived and is being tested and set up! Verizon is scheduled to make our fiber optic connection to the internet operable on this Thursday and Friday. Six beta-tester teachers have submitted 3rd MP grades and now 4th MP comments by computer and email rather than by bubble sheets.

March 30, 2001. Electrical power was off at the High School for an extended period of time this morning, reportedly due to a blown transformer. The usual server problems ensued.

March 28, 2001. For the last few days, we have been under attack from "li0n crew" and their worm. Their criminal activity has cost us a lot of time and money, but we think that we are together again, with only a few pages on our server destroyed by this worm's activity.

March 2, 2001. One 3Com 1100 switch in the library has been "concking out" about once a month for the last few years.... So we finally got to switch it with another switch and have it replaced. (Thanks to 3Com's 5 year warranty.) Unfortunately, its programming was a little different from the other switches in the stack, so we had to have Promedia's Bob Caputo return and program all the switches in the stack. Room 408 is Beverly Nelson's lecture room for her chemistry classes and now, thanks to her grants she has received as a part of her presidential award, it is becomming a hotbed of technology. She makes constant use of her computer projector and now has 14 laptops for her students to use. The network wiring for these laptops was done by the Computer Club's Jameson Gill and Mike Romba! Mrs Nelson's use of these computers provides a good example of how this technology can be a real asset as a supplement to regular classroom teaching techniques.

February 23, 2001. On Tuesday evening at about 9 pm, the Middle School (including the Administration Building) and Hillers School went down. So on Wednesday morning, I went into school to try to troubleshoot the problem. It seemed to be a matter with the router -- perhaps power had gone down -- and after changing the connections and rebooting several times, the system came back up. On Friday, February 23, 2001, Gary Scheffen and Bob Caputo of Promedia and I installed the new Firebox and reset the proxy server at the high school. By the end of the day, all seemed to be working fine.

February 17, 2001. On Thursday, February 15, 2001, we had a workshop on using and installing Altiris Vision. This is a program geared for teaching in computer laboratories and will be incorporated into our rooms and curriculum. We have also purchased the program Deep Freeze which will save the time and cost of reconfiguring computers after users misconfigure them or viruses attack them, or whatever. The period since February 6th has been rough with a number of problems. Most computers in room 330 have been misconfigured so that they no longer work on the network properly. In rooms 281 and 203 we had serious printer problems because two of the printers somehow got the same IP address. In the library we had trouble due to a faulty network switch. And for the last few days of the week we had trouble with our proxy server, which suddenly saw itself double on the network and then after that WINS problem was corrected it is refused access to the network. Finally, there is the AOL and Napster problem. In spite of many requests not to do so some teachers and students continue to install AOL on the school computers--this messes up their configurations! and causes some unpredictable results. Napster inastallations have caused much more computer traffic than our network can handle since when Napster is installed on a computer there is continual network traffic far in excess of what would be normal for ordinary browsing and computer use.

February 6, 2001. Due to the snow storm, Verizon had some downed telephone lines which brought down bergen.org and our own system from 6 pm February 5th until 9 am February 6th. Furthermore, the problem with bergen.org's new cache server made our use of the internet very limited until 12:20 pm today when everything was set to work correctly. This afternoon, Jameson Gill added printers to Mr Kelly's computer and to Mr LaMattina's computer as well as repairing the two computers in room 214 which refused to write to floppy disk.

February 2, 2001. The last few days have been very rough on our system. Our Firewall-filter has been blocking all sorts of sites it shouldn't be blocking.... The problem seems to be related to the www page caching system recently introduced at Bergen Tech, our ISP. We have also been busy with the high school library system, which is available on the www at http://168.229.236.20 and can be checked by you at home.

January 22, 2001. Our fiber-optic line is installed and tested! Now we are just waiting for the router and its configuration. Last Friday, Jameson Gill completed repairs on Mr Kelly's computer!

On another front, our library catalogue, etc., are now on line! See The Library and experiment with the pages! Further, Irene Webb's class in Photoshop, scanners, and digital cameras is half way done. Check some pictures here....

January 16, 2001. A big day at our network central! Two gentlemen from Verizon connected up the fiber-optic line (using acetone and methanol among other things), and Promedia's Audey Batista installed a new Cisco 3500 switch! (Replacing the defective one.) See the photo's.

January 11, 2001. Verizon's Stash DiMatteo '68 spent yesterday and today installing new hardware for our fiber-optic connection. We still need the connection from the fiber to the hardware.... We anticipate that this will all be completed by the end of the month. As for teacher education, Kimberly Moore completed the course, introduction to Microsoft Word, she was teaching earlier this month. Today, Irene Webb is beginning her course in using Adobe's Photoshop program, digital cameras and scanners. There is a waiting list for this course, so it is possible that she will teach it again, later in the Spring semester. Earlier this week one of our new Cisco 48 port switches "went south" and ceased working.... Promiedia's Audey Batista inserted a 3-com 1100 borrowed from the Middle School and a 3-com 3300 loaner from Promedia to take its place until the switch could be repaired or replaced.

December 27, 2000. The month of December has seen a large scale campaign by Verizon to connect each of our schools with fiber-optic lines. This will get the elementary schools off ISDN and provide the high school and middle school with much faster connections. The better system is particularly needed in the elementary schools. This is all provided by an Access New Jersey grant. We hope to have the project completed by the end of January. The Brodart upgrade to the high school library is underway as well. When completed, this will allow access to the library catalogue and resources from every networked computer in the high school. The fiber optic cable has been connected to the high school, and for some reason, in the process, the server which handles the sports page was shut down! I visited the high school this evening and rebooted the server.

December 6, 2000. Our system went down late Tuesday afternoon due to a power problem evidently caused by a workman. It was restored this morning by nine o'clock.

November 11, 2000. Our system went down at about 11:50 pm on November 9, 2000, due to a power outage that lasted so long even our UPS's went down!!! And what was going on to cause it, you ask? -- A good question.

November 6, 2000. Our internet access was down for about an hour this afternoon while technicians at Bergen Tech were installing a new card in their system. They brought down the entire bergen.org system without giving us any advanced notice! We continue to fight viruses at the high school--in particular: NYB, W97M/marker.gen, and APStrojan.gen18b. The "smart board" and projector in room 281 are now set up and operational. The Apple Laser printer is now functioning in the teachers' room for English teachers. Two more printers, one for Social Studies teachers and another for Mathematics and Science teachers have been delivered and will be set up soon; these are Hp 4050N printers. The Computer Club has been meeting on Fridays at 2:40 pm and has undertaken a study of PERL and of using UNIX style operating systems.

October 30, 2000. Our radio link between our main building and the stands is finally working! This enables the classrooms under the stands to be on the internet with speeds of about 30 kilobytes per second. We are using Lucent technology transmitters, receivers, and antennas. The link works on a frequency of about 2.4 GHz.

October 7, 2000. The T1 line to the Middle School went down sometime Tuesday, October 3rd. Verizon (formerly Bell Atlantic) checked out the problem and concluded it was on the line from the high school to their central office. The Verizon repairman arrived at the high school on Wednesday at 4 pm. He and I worked together on the problem until we had success at 8:45 pm! He had to arrange for a new telephone pair, and the first four or five that he tested were defective (probably the reason that they were out of use). Finally he got a good pair, but they still did not seem to test for T1 service. He also replaced the Pairgain card, but still no success. We changed the CSU/DSU for the line but that did not seem to do it. We could not bring the line protocol up. Finally the Verizon person at the central office said that she was still testing the line. Once she got off it, it came up and has been working fine ever since. Computers' freezing up, and more viruses, this time on the computer in room 344, made this week something of an adventure. We also did some work with Brodart on the library catalog system. We hope to have that system running on Windows soon, with a new library server.

September 24, 2000. Another very busy week. Val Darden worked on setting up the Smart Board in room 281 and some computers which were giving trouble. Diane Menditto set up all the computers in Language classrooms so they could print on stragetically located printers. The Apple Laser Writer 8500 is still in pieces at Promedia where it is being repaired--this will be used for English classrooms' printing. Apparently, a virus attacked the computers in room 218 affecting printing and use of Microsoft Word. A technician from Promedia (Joseph) worked on this Wednesday, but when the computers were rebooted on Thursday, the problem was back! So the technician was back on Friday and "ghosted" the computers in room 218 to be the same as one which appeared clean and had had its WindowsNT4 updated to Service Pack 6, Explorer updated to Explorer 5.5, and its Norton virus protection updated to a current date. Additional time was taken to complete the wiring for the rooms under the stands. (The expected delivery date for the radio link is now October 17th.) Crashed computers in other Business Ed rooms took additional time, and setting up computers in rooms 402 and 322 so they can be used for presentations using the TV sets in these rooms was successfully completed. This will be an ongoing process (with rooms 306 and 320 scheduled for the coming week) so that teachers who want to do powerpoint presentations, etc., in their own rooms can do so. Teachers who have chosen to do so have been downloading the VARed grading program and classlists and student directories from our secure network library. Teachers and clubs have been adding WWW pages to our server; see the update page for hackensackhigh.org at hhsnew.html to find out what is new on the Hackensack WWW site. To learn about maintaing a WWW site on hackensackhigh.org see /~rkc/webpage.html.

September 17, 2000. The classrooms and shops under the stands got closer to being on the internet this week, but the radio link which will connect them to the main building is backordered: Lucent Technologies seems to be having a problem.... Meanwhile, computers in room 201 kept failing in droves; these are very old and are used for keyboarding classes. As an emergency measure, new computers were purchased to replace the worst of these now, so classes can continue. (Alas, a few classes had 22 students, so 15 working computers were totally inadequate to the task!) A networked Apple Laser Writer 8500 printer is destined for the Teachers' Room on the second floor of the East Wing, if only it would behave itself--it was taken to the repair shop on Friday! When working, it will allow teachers in the area to print on it from their networked classroom computers. The hope is to do similar things with other printers around the building. Teachers are setting up their own WWW pages and downloading grading programs and finding a lot of class materials on the WWW. Finally the new library server is installed and is slowly being programmed and configured. (Each classroom computer takes about an hour to setup and configure, when everything works correctly!) This summer and especially the last two weeks have been very busy! Finally, this evening I gave the HHS page a new look by breaking up into smaller pages what had become an excessively large page. You may have noticed a link which will translate our page into other languages. So it is also available in Spanish, Italian, German, French, and Portugese.

September 1, 2000. Major efforts were made this week to complete the internet cables and drops at the high school. Rooms 203, 202, and 201 are completed. Room 406 is almost complete, being in need only of some cosmetic improements (and the completion of the electrical work for rooms 414-412 which has some of the electricity to room 406 shut off). Connections to Rooms 007 and 009 and the offices beneath the stands should be completed during the next couple of weeks. Computers have been installed in all the classrooms that had not had one, configured and loaded with fundamental software including Microsoft Office and McAfee antivirus programs. Licenses for these and for the VARed grading program have been purchased. Due to budget limittation, however, no computer furniture or printers have been purchased. There are a number of printers on the network already, and these will be able to be used. Our internet provider, Bergen Tech, was down for a few hours this evening thus interrupting our service also.

August 25, 2000. The Weather Station is on the NET and can be accessed by anyone either using a browser or by downloading weatherbug.exe at www.aws.com or by clicking on URL http://instaweather.com/full.asp?id=HAKSK

August 23, 2000. An Automated Weather Station has been installed by the Science Department at Hackensack High School. The station is connected to a network of school weather observatories and are accessible on the WWW. You can learn more about this network and this station by visiting http://www.aws.com. Once it is calibrated and linked up with the other school stations, its real time data will be available on the internet, and will be used in science courses at Hackensack High School. In particular, the Integrated Physical Science course has a significant study of weather as one of its components.

August 19, 2000. On Friday, JK Computer of New Jersey delivered monitors and computers for the classrooms. Promedia began cable work on Thursday, and should finish everything by this coming Friday. Scott Kwong has completed his summer job with us and will be happy not to have to carry around and confingure any more computers. Val Darden has volunteered her time and has been working with me configuring and locating computers. But this coming week will be a lot of hard work. In addition the Weather Station which the Science Department is installing has to be set up on the interent. John Doller, Head Custodian, did the physical installation of the station this week; now the computer interface has to be configured.

July 26, 2000. From the Monday after graduation, Scott Kwong and I have been at work on the High School's computers. We configured computers in room 203 for next year's keyboarding classes. We moved computers from room 406 to the library and to a few offices and reconfigured them to enable them to be used by the library catalogue system which is also to get a new server. We configured computers in the Print Shop (room 112) and set them up on the internet and did so with Technology room (room 118) computers and drafting room (room 261) computers. We also setup virtually all the computers in the school to use our proxy server. It was a very busy and exhausting three weeks. And we still expect a delivery of new computers and the completion of cable work at the High School to take care of rooms 201, 202, 007, 009 and 406.

June 1, 2000. Our internet connection to Bergen Tech was down again. Bell Atlantic had the problem fixed in four or five hours. The problem seems to have been that they had upgraded a card at their Central Office which was incompatible with the card at our end of the T1 line (a PairGain card). The solution was to upgrade our card too! The ISDN line to Parker School also was down. It seemed to have a break in it. It took Bell Atlantic a few days to repair it.

April 20, 2000. The four in-service courses offered at the high school are coming to a close. Mr Michael Rhodes (of Futurekids) taught two courses and was most popular. He taught the course for secretaries and the course for non-classroom teachers and department chairmen. Other courses were taught by Mr Tom Corizzi (of Futurekids) and Ms Irene Webb (of Hackensack HS).

March 24, 2000. Service from Bell Atlantic was spotty this week. Maintainence and upgrade work which was going to be done from midnight to 3 am was not completed on time and for the next two days we (and many other schools) suffered major interruptions in service.

March 17, 2000. Scanners have been added to the library, English & Social Studies Office, Foreign Language Office, and Photography/TV room. These will supplement the scanners in the Mathematics and Science Office, Business Education room 218, and Special Education room 224. We hope to get a "Smart Board" for the lab in room 281 and to get at least one computer in each classroom for this coming September.

March 3, 2000. Students and faculty were dismayed to find the network down from early this morning until about 10:30 am. The problem was at Bergen Tech and was with their connection to our T1 line.

February 28, 2000. High School faculty in-service computer courses have begun. There are three classes of 14 faculty members each: one for classroom teachers which is concentrating on general computer use in the classroom and Microsoft's POWERPOINT program for making class presentations; one for non-classroom teachers stressing using the computer generally and Microsoft's WORD and EXCEL programs, and one class for secretaries with an emphasis on the computer skills most helpful in performing their duties. The company, FUTUREKIDS, is presenting these courses.

February 20, 2000. The network was not functioning from about 6:30 am until late in the afternoon. The problem seems to have been a Bell Atlantic routing difficulty.

December 29, 1999. SETI@HOME has been in use on the computers in the library all semester. This means that when the computers are not being used for anything else, they are used in this distributed computing experiment to analyze data from the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico. So far, the project has done 125,000 computer hours of analysis. The effort is to seek out radio signals from out of this world communicating information from other intelligent beings.

November 26, 1999. Promedia will be back at the high school on Monday to finish the last missed drop from the summer's work (Room 122). We have solved the SETI problem, but still have a problem with using FTP through a browser--we know this is firewall-related since FTP works fine with the firewall out of the system. We have installed a Proxy Server at the high school which should speed up WWW access for those connected through it and we have connected our WindowsNT servers to 100 mb/sec ports rather than 10 mb/sec ports. Our Linux servers are still doing a great job and handling heavy traffic for our email and WWW pages. Chris Cornell's Star Wars page continues to set records for its popularity and high number of hits. We have set up a new computer with appropriate video card so we can use Powerpoint for our Channel 20 graphics. The computer lab with 30 computers and two printers for the English and Social Studies Departments is now fully operational (except for the air conditioners). During the month, we had another problem with the T1 line from the high school to the middle school: we discovered we had a bad serial port on the router; once changed to another port, everything worked fine. The Computer Club students installed most of the software required in the computers in room 281 and configured them for the internet; they also connected up each of the computers in room 214 to the internet. (This caused some strange printing problems, but they were easily straightened out.)

October 24, 1999. The cableing company is back to install the three drops they missed. With luck, all drops will be working on Monday. Meanwhile small problems with our firewall plague us, particularly at the middle school and at the elementary schools -- we have trouble reaching www.bergen.org and www.d-e.org as well as having ftp work correctly! We have also had problems using the screen saver SETI@home which also searches for ET.

September 16, 1999. The floods came and took Bergen Tech (our ISP) down until Monday, September 20th. Then, Wednesday, our main T1 line went down (a wire in the phone junction box became disconnected) and was fixed by Bell-Atlantic. Meanwhile our consultants made some changes which they could not test because the T1 was down, so the school system was down until Friday afternoon. Our consultants will be back the week of September 27th to finish correcting their modifications. Meanwhile, configuring the computers in the English/Social Studies Lab (Room 281) is awaiting electrical connections for the computers. We are gradually putting classroom computers on line as time allows the installation of ethernet cards and configuration.

August 27, 1999. The high school's wiring is almost completed.

June 25, 1999. The middle school is once again on-line. The other CSU/DSU on the T1 line was also damaged and had to be replaced.

June 18, 1999. Repairs to our three computers used for mechanical drawing have been made. The problem was in the video boards, which have been replaced. The computer monitors occasionally went blank and lost signal with changes in the picture's configuration.

June 16, 1999. At 7:35 am Bell-Atlantic called and advised me that our T1 line was down. It was, but rebooting the interface corrected this. Earlier in the week the T1 line from the high school to the middle school was once again active; its problem had been a defective interface (some call it a T1 modem, others call it a CSU/DSU). Beyond that our internal high school system was slow due to a programming matter with our filter (watchguard); this has been corrected by our Promedia Inc., consultants/engineers.

May 28, 1999. From 9 pm on our connection was down due to a Bell-Atlantic problem! On the two previous days, our connection was very slow. We regained service at about 12:45 am on May 29, 1999. Service was again lost and out most of Saturday morning until after noon.

Adjustments of our system continue. Some chinks and inconsistencies keep appearing and being corrected. We plan on installing Watchguard during the week of May 24, 1999, since it appears to be working reasonably well. Several more power supplies in computers in room 202 have "gone west." As with the problems in room 203, these are very old machines which have been used every day for more than ten years.

Today, May 18, 1999. Our system was down periodically. We were installing WatchGuard firewall/filter in the high school part of our network. If it works correctly, we will put it in front of our entire network.

The week of March 1, 1999, has been one of computer problems! During the previous week the server in room 203 went down, and the library card-catalogue computer server went down a few days later! A make-shift arrangement in room 203 should get us through the rest of the year. The library computer should be repaired during the week of March 8th. Then the T1 line between the high school and the middle school went down. It took Bell-Atlantic a couple of days to get it back up. Then, on Thursday, March 4th, our main web server went down. I was only able to get something up and running today (Saturday) March 6, 1999, after spending seven hours at school and then working from home. It has been a rough week.

On December 29, 1998, our internet connection, as well as all of bergen.org, was down for a number of hours--until after 3 pm. Brief down periods have occurred often earlier in the month due to problems with the DNS servers at bergen.org.

On December 11, 1998, Room 418, and the remaining Special Education classrooms were connected to the internet.

On December 8, 1998, Mr Rau's "electronic dark room" was set up next to the "chemical dark room" and includes an Epson photograph quality printer, a Cannon negative scanner, and a 400 MHz computer with 64 Meg RAM.

On or about December 1, 1998, Hillers School is back on line. The problem was with the router and was solved by getting a new router.

On November 25, 1998, the library computers are set up and completely operational. We now have 22 computers in the high school library on the internet and connected to two high speed HP printers. These computers are available to all the students in the high school who have complied with Board of Education policy regarding internet access.

As of November 25, 1998, Hillers School is still off-line due to router problems. A solution (a new router) is in sight....

On October 26, 1998, a dial-up internet connection was added in the English/Social Studies Office and is available for faculty and students. This will allow internet access from that distant part of the high school complex.

Since October 22, 1998, Hillers School has been off-line. The ISDN line has been checked and is OK. The problem seems to be in the router. Since mid-summmer, Parker School has been off-line. This has been due to construction there.

Delays plague internet expansion at the High School. Furniture for the library computers is now due to be delivered on November 4, 1998. The fiberglass cable to the third floor is installed, but not yet completely terminated. This has delayed connections to the computer laboratory in Room 330 and to the Special Education classrooms. Drops to the photography classroom and technology classroom are yet to be installed.

During the last two weeks of September, 1998, our service has been "flakey" and inconsistent due to difficulties at bergen.org, our ISP.

Our whole system was off-line from July 1, 1998, through about 9:50 am on July 6, 1998, due to an unsuccessful attempt to install hardware and software to block certain kinds of material.

June 17, 1998, marked several power interruptions in Hackensack at about eight o'clock in the evening, and, again, our system in room 406 did not come up on its own, although the router 168.229.236.1 did. So our www system was down again. This time our main computer, halley.hackensack.org (a/k/a 168.229.236.6) got it!!! It refused to reboot correctly. As you noticed, our main www server was down for a few days, as well as our mail, etc. I bought a UPS for this computer, having no desire to have to spend the time rebuilding the system, trying to rescue lost data, etc. We actually did loose some data in this event....

The first week of June was very rough on our internet connection! We had several power outages, mainly due to a PSE&G transformer problem. Our internet system no longer seems able to come up and reset itself correctly after such an outage. It took me a couple of hours and some telephone calls to figure out how to reset the system the first time. Now I am getting good at it.... On Sunday evening, May 31, 1998, there was an electric storm which caused a power failure throughout Hackensack. Our internet system came back up when power was restored, but several ethernet hubs did not reset properly keeping our WWW server off the internet until I could find the problem and correct it at about 9:30 am on Monday, June 1, 1998.

A brief power failure on Wednesday, May 27, 1998, caused all our computers to go down. The way the power surged caused them not to reboot on their own, but to freeze. One computer, our server at 168.229.236.11, was unable to read its hard drive, and then shortly after that its power supply completely failed. This was used for many of our links and graphics, so it will take some time to get everything back.... I took it to the seller for evaluation and repairs....

On Friday, May 22, 1998, our internet connection was down from 10:00 am until 10:50 am for reasons still unknown to me!

On Sunday, May 10, 1998, our internet connection, along with all of bergen.org went down! This happened about 6 am and the connection was out until about 4:00 pm. The cause was flooding at Bergen Tech! Even their emergency gererator was flooded out!

On April 3, 1998, a Linux Operating System was installed on one of the computers in Room 406. This has greatly enhanced the usefulness of our computers both for the AP Computer Science course and for work on the WWW. We now have an APACHE WWW server on line.

The Internet connection was pretty much down (very, very slow) on March 30, 1998 from about 5 am until 8:35 am. This was true for all clients of bergen.org.

A telephone line and modem internet access was provided for one computer in the high school library, March 25, 1998. (ISP is bergen.org)

The Internet was down briefly at about 2:55 pm on March 2, 1998. It was a Bell_atlantic and beyond problem!

The internet connection to the high school seems to have been down briefly about 10:10 pm est on February 11, 1998. Reason unknown!

The T1 line between the Middle School and the High School was installed by Bell-Atlantic late this afternoon, January 26, 1998.

The system was down for about fifteen minutes on Friday, January 23rd, while the ISDN lines were connected and the routers reconfigured.

ISDN lines to the elementary schools have been installed. Connecting up the elementary schools and the middle school await a T1 line from the high school to the middle school. These schools should finally be connected up by the end of January.

Twenty computers in the business education department have been connected to the internet. They should be in use January 20, 1998.

The internet connection between the High School and the outside world went down on Wednesday evening (January 14, 1998) due to the misconfiguring of the router by the men setting up the computers in the Business Education department. Service was restored about noon on January 15, 1998.

The internet connection between Room 406 and the ROUTER went down on November 25, 1997, before 8 am. This was corrected by men from Promedia on November 26, 1997, at 12:30 pm. It took them several hours (they arrived at 9:15 am) and they suggest the problem was likely caused by workmen installing new lighting, etc.

The Internet connection is working again. 3 pm edt Friday, August 29, 1997. It was down since noon.

The BBS is up and running. It was more than just a fuse. The power supply seems to have been fried. But I exchanged it with the one in our other TANGENT computer, so now the BBS, at least, works. As of 5 pm (17:00) edt the HHS internet connection is working.
August 28, 1997

This summer's electric storms have been hard on our computers. The first to go was our BBS. The computer ceased to operate early in the summer. Unfortunately, I have not yet have time to trouble-shoot and repair this thoroughly: it could be anything from a blown fuse to major catastrophe.
The internet connection (probably the router) went down during the big storm (the HS PA system was also knocked out!). We have people checking this out and working to get us back on line asap -- in the meantime 168.229.236.11 etc. are unavailable.
August 26, 1997

March 1997 - Breakthrough Technologies has gone bankrupt. Our internet connection is threatened....

October 1996 - The computers in Room 406 have had ethernet cards installed and are now on-line. Thanks to Breakthrough Technologies.

August 1996 saw the installation of a T1 line thanks to a grant of services from Breakthrough Technologies Inc. They will support 15 computers in room 406 with direct T1 access to the Internet.

March 1991 - I set up the Bulletin Board Service named "The Laboratory" in room 418 with a 14.4 Zoom modem and a Tangent (80386) computer. The number is 201-342-5659.

HISTORY! The first computer at Hackensack High School was installed in the middle to late 1960's. It was an IBM 1620. I used it beginning in 1969, having had experience programming Fordham University's IBM 1620 in summer 1962 and again in summer 1966. Former Vice Principal Frank Schetty was in charge of the computer and of Data Processing. He wrote all the software himself in Fortran and did grades and report cards for several neighboring districts as well as Hackensack.