[SIGCIS-Members] Oy! Another crazy computer history claim

[Trevor Croker]

Andrew,

This might be the type of image that you are looking for. The artist Kirby
Scudder did an overview of Palo Alto using Steinberg's style in 2014.

Blog post on the illustration.
<http://kirbyscudder.com/illustration/posters/palo-alto/>

The poster itself (not sure if there is a higher resolution out there)
<https://kirbyscudder.files.wordpress.com/2014/02/smallposter.jpg>.

Best,
Trevor

On Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 8:00 AM, Cary Gray <cary.gray at wheaton.edu> wrote:

> The Stanford Bookstore sold a poster along these lines when I was a grad
> student in the 1980s.  My recollections are that the legend was “Stanford:
> A View of the World”, and that Silicon Valley was one of the small
> foreground features at the right edge.  That would be a much larger feature
> if drawn today, and Sand Hill Road would now appear on the left margin.
>
> (A quick search for an image doesn’t turn it up—probably because of
> copyright issues.  I did find links to an artist selling something with a
> similar idea, but definitely not the poster I recall.)
>
>         Cary Gray
>
> > On Oct 16, 2015, at 3:46 PM, Andrew Meade McGee <amm5ae at virginia.edu>
> wrote:
> >
> > Someone ought to do an updated version of the famous Steinberg New
> Yorker cartoon Bill linked to, representing today's tech industry and
> centered on Silicon Valley.
> >
> > As Nathan Ensmenger's keynote at the SIGCIS workshop last weekend
> pointed out, that's an industry aggressively rewriting its past and seeking
> to pivot the rest of the world's concerns -- economic, policy, social --
> around its mobile, app-based worldview. The tech view from Palo Alto circa
> the 2010s is not that dissimilar to the media industry's view from New York
> in the 1970s.
> >
> > --AMM
> >
> > -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
> > Andrew Meade McGee
> > Corcoran Department of History
> > University of Virginia
> > PO Box 400180 - Nau Hall
> > Charlottesville, VA 22904
> >
> > On Fri, Oct 16, 2015 at 4:28 PM, McMillan, William W <
> william.mcmillan at cuaa.edu> wrote:
> > Evan, you just need to understand geography a little better:
> >
> >
> http://www.mappingthenation.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/Rumsey-Steinberg-New-Yorker-1976.jpg
> >
> > - Bill
> >
> > ________________________________________
> > From: Members [members-bounces at lists.sigcis.org] on behalf of Evan
> Koblentz [evan at snarc.net]
> > Sent: Friday, October 16, 2015 3:26 PM
> > To: Sigcis
> > Subject: [SIGCIS-Members] Oy! Another crazy computer history claim
> >
> > NY's Metropolitan Transit Authority -- the people who runs the subways,
> > trains, and buses -- hired a tour guide for Grand Central Station who's
> > saying that the terminal's circa-1913 electromechanical signaling system
> > is "the first electronic computer".
> >
> > Who was the chief engineer, Shiva Ayyadurai?
> >
> > This story is very unfortunately in Gothamist -- a very popular NYC
> > site. I shudder to think how many people now accept it as fact.
> >
> > http://gothamist.com/2015/10/15/grand_central_computer_video.php#photo-7
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Trevor Croker
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Department of Science and Technology in Society (0222)
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