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

[Kenneth Brody]

Quoting Walter Vaughan (Thu, 27 Jul 2006 20:08:59 -0400):

[...]
> <topic drift>
> 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.

Without "the 2nd fido-net node", it's not much of a "net", is it?  :-)

I'm sure just about everyone on this list can name the first person to
walk on the moon.  And most could probably name the second person, who
was still part of the first mission.  And I wouldn't be surprised if
many here could name the third member of the Apollo 11 crew, who got
to spend the mission in orbit.

But, how many can name the crew of the 2nd lunar landing mission?

    http://www.apolloarchive.com/apg_thumbnail.php?imageID=S69-38852

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

It's so nice of you to volunteer!  :-)

--
KenBrody at BestWeb dot net        spamtrap: <g8ymh8uf001 at sneakemail.com>
http://www.hvcomputer.com
http://www.fileProPlus.com