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Some background on the project: https://mcjones.org/dustydecks/archives/2020/03/18/1064/

I've been a happy LibraryThing user since since 2006.

Markoff's obituary [1] in the New York Times says, "The cause was not known, his wife, Colleen Barton, said, but in recent years he had suffered the effects of an earlier bicycle accident."

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/20/technology/lawrence-tesle...

I'm glad you mention testicular cancer, which I was diagnosed with in 1982, just as the first extended trials for a chemotherapy were completed (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Testicular_cancer#Chemotherapy). My staging surgery found no metastasis, but a year later it was clear it had spread to my lungs. More surgery, plus four grueling rounds of chemotherapy. This spring I will celebrate 36 years without a relapse.

yolk => yoke ?

Doug Engelbart's famous 1968 demo used an Eidophor.

Euclid's _Elements_.

And 110 baud before that (Model 33 Teletype).

https://amturing.acm.org/alphabetical.cfm links to a page for each awardee, with a link to their lecture.

Are you confusing continuations with closures? McCarthy credits Russell with inventing the FUNARG device to achieve lexical scoping.

> On the internet, the jerks are winning.

Arguably, it's not just on the internet. But I try to be optimistic.

No: Paul Kimpel's emulator is written in Javascript, and runs in the browser (complete with control panel displays).

Here's the source code, via Paul Kimpel:

https://github.com/retro-software/B5500-software/tree/master...

For the source code and more: http://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/LISP/

Or fiddle with the manual choke to find a setting where the engine would sort of idle. Or wish you had a manual choke, when the automatic choke wouldn't go on -- or off.

When the January 1975 issue of Popular Electronics came out, I worked for IBM San Jose Research, then on Cottle Road, and lived in a duplex across the pumpkin field just to the west. I jumped in my car and headed out to buy a copy, searching everywhere. Eventually I found a copy at a tobacco/magazine store downtown. The area was called Silicon Valley, but most residents weren't thinking about computers.

Except a Thermos bottle instead of a plastic water bottle.

Sketchpad listing at the Computer History Museum:

http://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/102726903

I too have scanned all the photographs from my family and my wife's family. The oldest is a tintype of my father's paternal grandparents, circa 1868. The scans are on a RAID 1 NAS, backed up nightly to another RAID 1 NAS, with other periodic backups. But it seems unlikely any of these copies will last another 150 years.

I had the good fortune to take the AT&SF El Capitan between Los Angeles and Dodge City at Christmas 1956 (when I was 7). The elegant dining car (run by Fred Harvey) was just one part of an experience I've never forgotten.

See the ACM's code of ethics, which they are in the process of updating: https://dl.acm.org/ft_gateway.cfm?id=3173016&ftid=1936873&dw... .

Much less than before.

The analogy is to nuclear winter (life after a hypothetical nuclear world war) or AI winter (after the fall of the Soviet Union led to decreased military-funded spending on AI).

Heath includes a chapter "Euclid in Arabia" detailing the various translations from Greek to Arabic.

Yes, the article later says "(On Voyager 2, because of the broken oscillator, any change in temperature also tweaks the receiver frequency.)"

Honda has both CarPlay and Android Auto.

nomorobo.com works well for me (with an AT&T U-verse VOIP line). You need to have the "simultaneous ring" feature, which most mobile phone carriers do not provide.

I agree that replacing carburetors with electronic fuel injection made a huge improvement. Another step was replacing the distributor and points with electronic ignition. When was the last time anyone replaced a spark plug?

Apparently there are more projects than proper nouns. This just makes life more interesting.

The Dream Machine was Taylor's own favorite of this genre.