<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><div>Re your last 'throw-away' line, Murray, my sentiments exactly.</div><div> </div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div>The problem later on is "If not you, who? And if not now, when?"</div><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div>Not easy to imagine</div><div><br></div><div>Best, Chuck</div><div><br></div><span id="OLK_SRC_BODY_SECTION"><div style="font-family:Calibri; font-size:11pt; text-align:left; color:black; BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none; BORDER-LEFT: medium none; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0in; PADDING-LEFT: 0in; PADDING-RIGHT: 0in; BORDER-TOP: #b5c4df 1pt solid; BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; PADDING-TOP: 3pt"><span style="font-weight:bold">From: </span> Members <<a href="mailto:members-bounces@lists.sigcis.org">members-bounces@lists.sigcis.org</a>> on behalf of Murray Turoff <<a href="mailto:murray.turoff@gmail.com">murray.turoff@gmail.com</a>><br><span style="font-weight:bold">Date: </span> Tuesday, August 18, 2015 6:30 PM<br><span style="font-weight:bold">To: </span> "Ceruzzi, Paul" <<a href="mailto:CeruzziP@si.edu">CeruzziP@si.edu</a>><br><span style="font-weight:bold">Cc: </span> "<a href="mailto:members@sigcis.org">members@sigcis.org</a>" <<a href="mailto:members@sigcis.org">members@sigcis.org</a>><br><span style="font-weight:bold">Subject: </span> Re: [SIGCIS-Members] Is Unix racist?<br></div><div><br></div><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Too many of these early events are unrecorded.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><br><br></div></div></span></body></html>