[SIGCIS-Members] Is Unix racist?

[Chuck House]

Re your last 'throw-away' line, Murray, my sentiments exactly.
  
Jennifer Light gave a terrific talk at last fall's SIGCIS meeting,
describing 'our world' as about 400 professional computer historians,
arrayed in five non-intersecting (somewhat disdainful) circles whilst all
about us the practitioners are dying and taking their wonderful unrecorded
stories with them.

When you're in the fray, say writing GE 225 BASIC, and being fired, you're
not focused on recording the story.  And you likely don't view it as having
any historical significance.
The problem later on is "If not you, who?  And if not now, when?"

Practitioners, at the least, have to become more aware, more motivated, and
more involved in 'our collective history' even if it is only their small
spot in the sun.
Not easy to imagine

Best, Chuck

From:  Members <members-bounces at lists.sigcis.org> on behalf of Murray Turoff
<murray.turoff at gmail.com>
Date:  Tuesday, August 18, 2015 6:30 PM
To:  "Ceruzzi, Paul" <CeruzziP at si.edu>
Cc:  "members at sigcis.org" <members at sigcis.org>
Subject:  Re: [SIGCIS-Members] Is Unix racist?

Too many of these early events are unrecorded.





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