Posted on 06/11/2017 7:44:01 AM PDT by mairdie
Link is to my YouTube Computer Playlist. It now includes some of the original video interview sources for the John Cocke video, and will soon include all. Also, a real meeting held by John Backus, inventor of FORTRAN, while I crawled around on the floor.
The original tapes were destroyed, though I begged Fran Allen to put them in her office when I left IBM. She left them in the studio and they were erased. This is the only historical record for some of this material. I'm hoping it spreads and gets saved.
What I still have, and am trying to think what to do about, are
- An hour or two of glimpses of a meeting of the Common Lisp standards group, of which I was Secretary. Doesn't give computer info, just glimpses of people from 30 years ago - like JonL White - who will still be recognized.
- I also have the 25th Anniversary speeches of IBM Research Computer Sciences, including Isaac Asimov, though audio is poor.
- And the reception for major computer people at which John Cocke's video and kiosk were unveiled. Again, don't get much out of the audio but images of some people from 30 years ago, now gone.
Video equivalent of a brain dump.
I love history, but not sure I care to learn about computer lovers.
Excellent catch. Red face.
Very good. I am a History of Computers Lover.
The History of Computer Lovers has not yet been written, but will be started in the next few years.
I stepped right into that one. And then slippery slope says you should have the right to marry both your desktop AND your laptop.
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