[SIGCIS-Members] Request for biographies

[Christine Finn]

There are some fragments of biographies in my 2001/2 book Artifacts: an
archaeologist's year in Silicon Valley (MIT Press) but maybe too much
autobiography also, for this thread...

best wishes to all,

Christine

On Sat, 5 Sep 2020 at 21:38, Paul N. Edwards <pedwards at stanford.edu> wrote:

> Second this recommendation.
>
> Ornstein’s contemporaneous thoughts about the ARPANET project he worked
> on, paraphrased: “Why in the world would anyone ever want to network
> computers?”
>
> Paul
>
> On Sep 5, 2020, at 03:27, David Walden <dave.walden.family at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> Severo Ornstein's memoir "Computing in the Middle Ages -- A view from the
> trenches, 1955-1983".
>
> Available publicly at the Computer History Museum.
> https://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/102785079
>
> His journey goes from Whirlwind to TX-2 to LINC to ARPANET to Durado to
> Mockingbird.  At least look at the annotated Table of Contents and read the
> Preface to see what you'd be missing to not read his well written story.
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