RE: vapor-history

Thomas Lapp (ethics%mvac23.uucp@udel.edu)
Sun, 6 Dec 92 17:09:06 EST

Robert Holder <robert@whiplash.er.usgs.gov> wrote:
> It's incredible to me that most or all of the information about
> the pioneers of the "new electronic frontier" (if I may be so
> sensationalistic) will be anecdotes which are gradually forgotten
> until just a few are recorded long after the fact. The irony for
> me is that this is happening in the very area where we are seeing
> historic advances in the design and use of these information
> gathering and recording tools, the computers.

I seem to recall that the recent PBS series on Computers and the
history of them (a six-part series partially sponsored by ACM)
was a small attempt to capture some of this very history while
the founders were still around (and many of them still working
in their fields).

A agree though, that the messages that a number of us have on our
magnetic media would constitute a very interesting and useful
history -- but that they probably won't stay around like paper
letters would have...
- tom
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