<div dir="ltr"><div>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...</div><div><br></div><div>best wishes to all,</div><div><br></div><div>Christine <br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, 5 Sep 2020 at 21:38, Paul N. Edwards <<a href="mailto:pedwards@stanford.edu">pedwards@stanford.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">



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Second this recommendation. 
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<div>Ornstein’s contemporaneous thoughts about the ARPANET project he worked on, paraphrased: “Why in the world would anyone ever want to network computers?”
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<div>On Sep 5, 2020, at 03:27, David Walden <<a href="mailto:dave.walden.family@gmail.com" target="_blank">dave.walden.family@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div>
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<p dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125)">Severo<span> </span></span><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125)">Ornstein's</span><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125)"><span> </span>memoir
 "Computing in the Middle Ages -- A view from the trenches, 1955-1983".</span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125)">Available publicly at the Computer History Museum.</span><br>
<span style="color:rgb(31,73,125)"><a href="https://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/102785079" target="_blank">https://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/102785079</a></span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125)">His journey goes from Whirlwind to TX-2 to LINC to<span> </span></span><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125)">ARPANET</span><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125)"><span> </span>to<span> </span></span><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125)">Durado</span><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125)"><span> </span>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.</span></p>
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<div><a href="https://profiles.stanford.edu/paul-edwards" target="_blank">Paul N. Edwards</a><br>
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<div><a href="http://cisac.fsi.stanford.edu/" target="_blank">Center for International Security and Cooperation</a></div>
<div>Co-Director, <a href="https://cisac.fsi.stanford.edu/stanford-existential-risks-initiative" target="_blank">Stanford Existential Risks Initiative</a></div>
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