At least it's a better title than 'The centre for computing history'
(Cambridge, UK).
On Wed, May 22, 2024 at 9:39 PM Sellam Abraham via cctalk <
cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
> On Wed, May 22, 2024 at 1:15 PM John Foust wrote:
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> > At 01:32 PM 5/22/2024, Sellam Abraham via cctalk wrote:
> > >
On Wed, May 22, 2024 at 1:15 PM John Foust wrote:
> At 01:32 PM 5/22/2024, Sellam Abraham via cctalk wrote:
> >His and his wife
> >Gwen's (god rest her soul as well) personal collecting and the museum at
> >DEC was the basis for the Boston Computer Museum, which effectively went
> >west and becam
At 01:32 PM 5/22/2024, Sellam Abraham via cctalk wrote:
>His and his wife
>Gwen's (god rest her soul as well) personal collecting and the museum at
>DEC was the basis for the Boston Computer Museum, which effectively went
>west and became the Computer History Museum.
He was quite sensitive about t
One issue in choosing a book size is that the booksellers have put the book on
a standard sized shelf so it should conform to that size. Very tall books, like
coffee table books are hard to display because they don’t fit on a shelf.
Booksellers really don’t like those (unless they become best sel
On Wed, May 22, 2024 at 2:39 PM Paul Koning wrote:
> As I mentioned, it is not unprecedented; I have a book about book design
> which talks at some length about choosing the page proportions, and it
> mentions square pages as one of the recognized choices. I think it says that
> it isn't very
> On May 22, 2024, at 3:29 PM, Gavin Scott via cctalk
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> On Wed, May 22, 2024 at 2:25 PM John Herron via cctalk
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>> Out of curiosity is the book the size of a floppy disk or some computer
>> item at the time? (Any significance or just him being unique?).
>
> Here's an A
On Wed, May 22, 2024 at 2:25 PM John Herron via cctalk
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> Out of curiosity is the book the size of a floppy disk or some computer
> item at the time? (Any significance or just him being unique?).
Here's an Amazon listing showing what it looked like. Ordinary book
size if not shape.
https:
On Wed, May 22, 2024, 1:58 PM Paul Koning via cctalk
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> > On May 22, 2024, at 1:19 PM, Bill Degnan via cctalk <
> cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
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> > It's a slog, but if you can make it through Gordon Bell's book, "Computer
> > Structures Readings and Examples" you realize Gordon is a
On Wed, May 22, 2024 at 1:50 PM Paul Koning via cctalk
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> I still have that book, though it's deep in some box.
https://gordonbell.azurewebsites.net/cgb%20files/computer%20structures%20readings%20and%20examples%201971.pdf
> On May 22, 2024, at 1:19 PM, Bill Degnan via cctalk
> wrote:
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> It's a slog, but if you can make it through Gordon Bell's book, "Computer
> Structures Readings and Examples" you realize Gordon is a "father of
> vintage computing", in addition to his involvement with the first computer
> mu
> On May 22, 2024, at 11:10 AM, Don R via cctalk wrote:
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> Control-G
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> In one of the comments I found this interesting tidbit:
>
> Working at DEC for many years, I learned a lot from Mr. Bell. One of my
> favorite sayings was he calling himself "the industry standard dummy." Which
> s
On Wed, May 22, 2024 at 10:19 AM Bill Degnan via cctalk <
cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
> It's a slog, but if you can make it through Gordon Bell's book, "Computer
> Structures Readings and Examples" you realize Gordon is a "father of
> vintage computing", in addition to his involvement with the f
Control-G
In one of the comments I found this interesting tidbit:
Working at DEC for many years, I learned a lot from Mr. Bell. One of my
favorite sayings was he calling himself "the industry standard dummy." Which
simply meant that he approached all new products without pre-conceived notions
It's a slog, but if you can make it through Gordon Bell's book, "Computer
Structures Readings and Examples" you realize Gordon is a "father of
vintage computing", in addition to his involvement with the first computer
museum in Boston. He knew better than anyone the historical significance
of comp
On 5/20/24 10:25, Bill Degnan via cctalk wrote:
>>> American Computer Museum
>>> Computer History Museum
>>> Computer Museum of America
>>> Large Scale Systems Museum
>>> Rhode Island Computer Museum
>>> System Source Computer Museum
Of course, there's the Living Computer Museum--oh, wait
.
Gordon Bell was a real delightful man, and most unassuming. He was always
warm and friendly to everyone, and it was a pleasure and honor to have
known him.
Sellam
On Wed, May 22, 2024 at 7:07 AM Christian Liendo via cctalk <
cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
> Ars Technica
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> https://arstechnica.c
Ars Technica
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/05/gordon-bell-an-architect-of-our-digital-age-dies-at-age-89/
New York Times Obit
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/21/technology/c-gordon-bell-dead.html?unlocked_article_code=1.t00.xAnm.sr2ZsjF5OSti&smid=url-share
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