On Thu, 24 Oct 2024, Doug Jackson via cctalk wrote:
Yes, UUCP was literally a thing, but UNIX was unobtanium in the early
computing eral - The world of the University Minicomputer.
It certainly wasn't even vaguely accessible by a hobbyist running a
Z80 or 6800 in the late 70's.
I vividly remem
On 2024-10-23 8:36 p.m., Doug Jackson via cctalk wrote:
Yes, UUCP was literally a thing, but UNIX was unobtanium in the early
computing eral - The world of the University Minicomputer.
It certainly wasn't even vaguely accessible by a hobbyist running a
Z80 or 6800 in the late 70's.
I vividly re
Yes, UUCP was literally a thing, but UNIX was unobtanium in the early
computing eral - The world of the University Minicomputer.
It certainly wasn't even vaguely accessible by a hobbyist running a
Z80 or 6800 in the late 70's.
I vividly remember being able to take home a NEC 80386 computer from
m
On 10/23/24 14:23, Wayne S via cctalk wrote:
> If you were to write an obit of Edwin deCastro, who recently died, what
> accomplishments would you emphasize?
Did Edson de Castro have a brother named Edwin?
--Chuck
On 10/23/2024 3:22 PM, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote:
On Wed, 23 Oct 2024, Robert Feldman via cctalk wrote:
Ward Christensen, Early Visionary of Social Media, Dies at 78
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/21/technology/ward-christensen-dead.html?unlocked_article_code=1.UU4.nswM.540OUXuySX84&smid
Fred, probably there was no death file for Ward so the writer had to start from
scratch.
Associated Press has a deaths wire where they put up obits of people of
interest. I’d assume that’s how NYT even knew about Ward. It’s interesting to
me that they bothered to put up his obit as he is mildly
for the "unwashed masses", cbbs was like a blog, and revolutionary. and
something they can relate to
people send photos on emails, but file transfer with xmodem was only meaningful
for computer nerds. business did file transfer more like faxing. specialized
devices called each other, maybe ev
On Wed, 23 Oct 2024, Mike Katz wrote:
I agree with you but phrased differently. XMODEM is ubiquitous but CBBS
created a
totally new way of sharing information and is the forerunner of everything from
CompuServe to the internet, instant messaging and even social media.
Most people reading an ob
On Sun, 20 Oct 2024, Steve Lewis via cctalk wrote:
> the vicinity of the area at least. On the positive, my thinking is that
> since the battery is "inverted" from normal and pointing towards the ground
> - if it does leak, it'll just leak into the plastic base of the system.
Mind the capillary
Good point
I don't see much impact of that on this one. Other than editing in his
brother's statement that it was a heart attack, I don't see anything
obvious in this about whether it was pre-written long ago, or freshly
written. (XMODEM was already extremely popular 40 years ago)
Would the
One last thing…
Most news organizations have a death file for famous people.
Their obits have already been written.
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> On Oct 23, 2024, at 14:23, Wayne S wrote:
>
> I do understand that opinion in and i agree. It’s that having worked for
> major newspapers for 35 years, i
I do understand that opinion in and i agree. It’s that having worked for major
newspapers for 35 years, i know the way stories are written and how much work
goes into them and how much editing and fact checking is done. There is only so
much space for words and can’t be covered, so the writer a
On Wed, 23 Oct 2024, Wayne S via cctalk wrote:
I have to respectfully disagree.
This is an obituary for a person who has died, which is not a complete history
of his life. The articles are rather lengthy, for an obituary in a major
newspaper where space is limited. I think the author did do som
On Wed, 23 Oct 2024 at 16:00, Fred Cisin via cctalk
wrote:
> On Wed, 23 Oct 2024, Robert Feldman via cctalk wrote:
>
> > Ward Christensen, Early Visionary of Social Media, Dies at 78
> >
> >
> https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/21/technology/ward-christensen-dead.html?unlocked_article_code=1.UU4.nsw
The author did their best to pad the piece up to length by doing the least
amount of work possible - interview immediate family and the "standout
names" who responded in a timely manner - and then that's it. On to the
next one.
-Henry
On Wed, 23 Oct 2024 at 16:15, Wayne S wrote:
> I have to re
I have to respectfully disagree.
This is an obituary for a person who has died, which is not a complete history
of his life. The articles are rather lengthy, for an obituary in a major
newspaper where space is limited. I think the author did do some rather deep
investigation. He did talk to Ward
Author is a general assignment reporter. Not young judging from his mugshot.
Wouldn’t expect him to cover XM modem too much as that’s for very technical
people and wouldn’t be relevant to his article. If David Pogue wrote the
article then perhaps
All in all a very good article what did you say?
Phone caught the “What did you say” phrase. Please disregard!
Sent from my iPhone
> On Oct 23, 2024, at 12:40, Wayne S wrote:
>
> Author is a general assignment reporter. Not young judging from his mugshot.
> Wouldn’t expect him to cover XM modem too much as that’s for very technical
> peopl
On Wed, 23 Oct 2024, Robert Feldman via cctalk wrote:
Ward Christensen, Early Visionary of Social Media, Dies at 78
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/21/technology/ward-christensen-dead.html?unlocked_article_code=1.UU4.nswM.540OUXuySX84&smid=url-share
Thank you for sharing that.
The author, p
Ward Christensen, Early Visionary of Social Media, Dies at 78
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/21/technology/ward-christensen-dead.html?unlocked_article_code=1.UU4.nswM.540OUXuySX84&smid=url-share
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