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Subject: [Leica] Back ar work
From: lluisripollphotography at gmail.com (lluisripollphotography)
Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2016 02:50:51 +0200
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Hi Herb,

I add +1 to the Douglas comment!
Lluis



> El 27 juny 2016, a les 0:52, Douglas Barry <imra at iol.ie> va escriure:
> 
> Interesting piece of history, Herb. I'm glad to hear you're up and about 
> and presumably red shirted again like the guys in the image. Keep healthy!!
> 
> Douglas
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Herbert Kanner" <kanner at acm.org>
> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org>
> Sent: Sunday, June 26, 2016 11:45 PM
> Subject: [Leica] Back ar work
> 
> 
>> My mail program went nuts last week. Twice I sent a rather long piece of 
>> mail describing the circumstances around a Gallery picture and each time 
>> the mail went into a black hole and the text had to be composed again. 
>> This time I'm being smarter and writing and saving it first in a word 
>> processor.
>> 
>> OK. Don't remember what I last posted re health, but I was in the 
>> hospital for over a week with congestive heart failure. Made a rapid 
>> recovery as soon as I got home, and after a couple of weeks, returned to 
>> volunteer week at the Computer History Museum.
>> 
>> As a consequence of the loss of the Babbage Difference Engine, I rejoined 
>> the group that gives twice monthly demonstrations of a working PDP1 
>> computer (vintage 1960), the first ?mini-computer?, in fact, the 
>> manufacturer (Digital Equipment Corporation) coined the term.
>> 
>> The PDP1 is about the size of three household refrigerators. It's turned 
>> on at the throw of one switch. It sold for $120,000. In the year it came 
>> out, the manufacturer donated one to MIT. One professor permitted  
>> ?hackers? access to it from midnight to morning. This was before  
>> ?hackers? became a pejorative term. One of those hackers was Peter 
>> Samson, who figured out how to make the machine play four-part music, and 
>> our demo inclueds the opening of a Bach fugue. The other, Steve Russell, 
>> largely wrote the code for the world's first video game, Space War, which 
>> later became an arcade game.
>> 
>> When I arrived at the Museum a week ago Saturday, I found the PDP1 team 
>> in the cafeteria area enjoing a post-lunch bull session. I just had to 
>> take a picture. We were all wearing our uniform red shirts. Note the guy 
>> on the right; that's Steve Russell.
>> 
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/herbk1/L1000005_001.jpg.html 
>> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/herbk1/L1000005_001.jpg.html>
>> 
>> Please look ?large?.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Herbert Kanner
>> kanner at acm.org
>> 
>> Question Authority and the authorities will question you.
>> 
>> 
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