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To: mairdie
This is pay dirt if I ever encountered such! I'll be sure to use whatever I can of yours in my class. So there.

I like to teach my geeks some of the history of electronics and computing. Good Lord, it is a short history, really. It is mind-numbing that humankind came so far, so fast. We rode on the shoulders of giants.

I won't be letting you get away. Thank you so very much for sharing these things.

60 posted on 07/06/2018 2:54:57 PM PDT by GingisK
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To: GingisK

Many hugs, and you’re welcome to all I have. A lot of those music videos - like the first appearance of moving video on a screen - were used as videos in keynote addresses of big computer science conferences.

Watch John Cocke: A Retrospective of Friends. The man was stunning. Then watch the raw footage I worked from. I let John ramble and used a whole minute of his talking because it was essential John, even if a video no/no. He thought I knew what he was talking about and used to pin me in the hall, talk at me and walk away. Husband was asked to take the task of following him and writing down what John said, but wanted to do his own thing. Everyone who did that became famous. EVERYONE describing John independently used the term “gentleman.”


61 posted on 07/06/2018 3:00:15 PM PDT by mairdie
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