Feels like someone should write up a historiographical paper on IT bios for an Annals article. Looks like the bib for such a project has now been created. Someone should raise their hand and do it. Jim On Sat, Sep 5, 2020 at 9:44 AM Brian Berg <brianberg@gmail.com> wrote:
Thanks - this is some wonderful reading. For example, the Bob Taylor portion and the birth of the ARPANET and the ALTO computer nicely complements other books such as Leslie Berlin's *Troublemakers*.
Thanks, Brian Berg
On Sat, Sep 5, 2020 at 3:28 AM David Walden <dave.walden.family@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. _______________________________________________ This email is relayed from members at sigcis.org, the email discussion list of SHOT SIGCIS. Opinions expressed here are those of the member posting and are not reviewed, edited, or endorsed by SIGCIS. The list archives are at http://lists.sigcis.org/pipermail/members-sigcis.org/ and you can change your subscription options at http://lists.sigcis.org/listinfo.cgi/members-sigcis.org
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