OT: Sci-fi (was RE: Ultra-portable terminals)

[Walter Vaughan]

Kenneth Brody wrote:
> There was a show on the Discovery Channel a few months ago called
> "How William Shatner changed the world"

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This morning at OSCON one of the keynote speakers was a guy I guess is actually 
famous for doing documentaries on the history of computing. He's done one on 
early text adventure writers and one on FIDO net that I remember. I belive he 
said that no one had ever interviewed the 2nd fido-net node... you would think 
he would be an important person in the history of networkinging since he's the 
first person to actually "connect", and two of his interviewees died during 
editing of the movie.

His point was that we should be preserving the a lot more of our current 
computer history with pictures and stories.

Not just sales numbers and units sold (he considers number just old bones in a 
grave), but we should be storing up the reasons (flesh and life) we made 
decisions. The stories of why we started working with filePro those 20 so years 
ago, and why we used it for decades. That's what needs to be preserved for the 
generation studying us a hundred years in the future.

Someone needs to make sure there is a filePro mueseum. Store up Howie's stories, 
JE's, TP's, JP's, BobS's. That's the stuff that will make what we do here today 
last a lot longer than the report we did last week for the shipping department.

--
Walter