Eastview Secondary School is a public secondary school (grades 9-12) located in northeastern

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. It has an enrollment of about 1,400 students. Eastview is one of the largest high schools in Barrie, Ontario, serving students from the east end of Barrie, as well as the south portion of Oro-Medonte Township (Horseshoe Valley, Shanty Bay, Crown Hill). It has a string-music program, making it unique in the county. The mascot of the school is a Wildcat.

Computing History

Built in 1967, Eastview was equipped with the first student accessible mainframe computer in

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. The

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GE-115 was equipped with 12K of

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and a

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with a removable

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. The GE-115 computer was housed in a climate controlled room and operated by students. Students at Eastview could use

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decks to submit FORTRAN and COBOL programs to be run by the student operators. Other high schools sent in their programs encoded on mark sense cards and would receive the output bundled around their cards after their jobs were submitted. With the advent of the microcomputer in the late 1970s, Eastview computer curriculum grew to include courses based on the

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and

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using the computer language, BASIC. In 1981, the GE-115 mainframe computer was dismantled and shipped to the

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Notable alumni

* Mike Hoffman (ice hockey, born 1963), NHL player

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Eastview Secondary School
{{Authority control High schools in Barrie Educational institutions in Canada with year of establishment missing

Computing History

Notable alumni

See also

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