socal-1979
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- series
- socal regional · North America
- season
- 1979–1980 (the year in the id is the season label, not the date)
- location
- (SoCal; San Diego State area) (free text; not yet placed in the location tree)
- advances to
- wf-1980
- next edition
- socal-1980
- CMS ids
- pre-CMS era
- provenance
- comp.org.acm: Marc K. Furon (SoCal RCD), in 'ACM Regionals Results!' (1994-11-16): 'The rules were different back in 1979/80 ... four person teams, six hours, and only four problems ... (You were allowed to get a listing of your card deck in 1980 ...)' signed 'the scorekeeper in the 1979/80 contest ref — https://groups.google.com/g/comp.org.acm/c/Ir4-KhLi-Oc [existence hunt 2026-10-22]; Daily Sundial (CSUN), 9 Nov 1979, p.12 'Programmers to compete' (1979-11-09): 'The CSUN Computer Science Association and the San Fernando Chapter of the Association for Computing Machinery are hosting the 1979 ACM Southern California Regional Computer Programming Contest in the Computer Center Sun — https://digital-collections.csun.edu/digital/collection/Sundial/id/26307 [existence hunt 2026-10-22]; Daily Sundial (CSUN), 14 Nov 1980, p.2 'Programming competition to be held at CSUN Sunday' (1980-11-14): 'This is the second year CSUN has entered the competition and the second year it has hosted it, Furon said. ... Pomona won the competition last year, Furon said. CSUN came in third last year. ... Only two of the teams so — https://digital-collections.csun.edu/digital/collection/Sundial/id/20282 [existence hunt 2026-10-22]; CSUN Digital Collections CONTENTdm search API (n.d.): Exact-phrase full-text search of the digitised Daily Sundial returns 9 issues 1979-1992 containing 'programming contest' (1979-11-09, 1980-11-14, 1984-10-24, 1984-10-25, 1985-10-25, 1987-10-08, 1987-10-09, 1992-11-04, 19 — https://digital-collections.csun.edu/digital/api/search/collection/Sundial/searchterm/%22programming%20contest%22/field/all/mode/exact/conn/and/maxRecords/100 [existence hunt 2026-10-22]