Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2014/02/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]The Computer History Museum is in Mountain View, CA. It has the largest collection of computer artifacts in the world. What is on display is something like between 5 and 10 percent of the collection. Yet it is an incredibly large display; if you walk through every single gallery you will have walked a quarter mile. If you want a capsule history of the Museum, here is a link to a Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_History_Museum Herbert Kanner kanner at acm.org 650-326-8204 Question authority and the authorities will question you. On Feb 18, 2014, at 5:16 PM, Ken Carney <kcarney1 at cox.net> wrote: > Herbert, > > Very happy you are feeling better. If the winter weather plus the flu > won't get you down I don't know what will. Plus, I get sick whenever I > have to take antibiotics. I had to take cipro for 30 days year before > last. If we have a terrorist anthrax attack I'll take the anthrax, > thanks. So where is the Computer History Museum? > > Ken > > On 2/18/2014 11:59 AM, Herbert Kanner wrote: >> Some time ago my wife and I came down with fever, a cough and a liquid >> nose. independent doctors (her?s and mine) after a chest X-rays that ?did >> not rule out pneumonia? were prescribed the same anti-biotic. We were >> sick for about three weeks. It was quite profound: my weight is down by >> six percent, and for a few days, you could say that I was clinically >> depressed. >> >> While the ?quacks? wouldn?t commit themselves: we both had flu shots and >> they said there were no statistics on people getting flu after having the >> shots, I?m convinced that it had to have been flu. It was too profound. >> >> The effect of the temporary depression was that I couldn?t communicate >> with friends. While last Saturday, I felt that I had recovered >> sufficiently to do my regular shift at the Computer History Museum, which >> was participating in a 45 minute lecture demonstration of the Babbage >> Difference Engine, followed a quarter hour later by a one-hour guided >> tour of the Museum, the very next day I felt as follows: >> >> I couldn?t bring myself to phone my geocaching buddy, a friend since >> 1986. I went almost under protest to a performance of Die Fledermaus and >> sat there wishing I were somewhere else. My wife had organized a party of >> friends for dinner after the performance, and I just opted out; asked to >> be dropped off at home. I just couldn?t talk to people. >> >> The next day, yesterday, I was over it. Strange. >> >> Herbert Kanner >> kanner at acm.org >> 650-326-8204 >> >> Question authority and the authorities will question you. >> >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >