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
>
> https://arstechnica.c
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
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
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
> On May 22, 2024, at 11:10 AM, Don R via cctalk wrote:
>
> 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
> s
> On May 22, 2024, at 1:19 PM, Bill Degnan via cctalk
> 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 first computer
> mu
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 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:
> >
> > 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 2:25 PM John Herron via cctalk
wrote:
> 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 May 22, 2024, at 3:29 PM, Gavin Scott via cctalk
> wrote:
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> On Wed, May 22, 2024 at 2:25 PM John Herron via cctalk
> wrote:
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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 2:39 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
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
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
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 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:
>
> > At 01:32 PM 5/22/2024, Sellam Abraham via cctalk wrote:
> > >
I had the good fortune of visiting The Computer Museum in Boston in the summer
of 1984. Reading the museum's Wikipedia article, it appears I was there while
they were still freshly setting up their Museum Wharf location, yet hadn't
officially opened yet. Unfortunately I only had an hour (or li
I have a vague memory of visiting the Computer Museum when it was still at DEC,
in the Marlboro building (MRO-n). About the only item I recall is a Goodyear
STARAN computer (or piece of one). I found it rather surprising to have see a
computer made by a tire company. I learned years later tha
ing
> Subject: [cctalk] Re: C. Gordon Bell, Creator of a Personal Computer
> Prototype, Dies at 89
> Date: May 23, 2024 at 6:58:06 PM CDT
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> Cc: Kevin Anderson
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