[clue] Tonights meeting

[daryl kuchay]

Thank you for information. I have a contact in Brazil who currently heads
the Porteus linux project. Porteus is the continuation of the Slax linux
project. Aimed him at the site you showed us last night. Hopefully he has
interest in getting involved. Thank you again for a completely fascinating
pesentation. Thank as well for sharing your knowledge and your experience. I
learned a great deal and am very glad that I attended. I won't be able to
attend this evening so if anyone attending takes video please let me know.

Thank you,
Daryl

Sent from my Android phone
On Aug 25, 2011 11:24 AM, "Jon "maddog" Hall" <maddog at li.org> wrote:
> Dennis, Daryl and the rest of CLUE,
>
> I thank you for the kind words, and for the hospitality shown me during
> and after the talk.
>
> I found it refreshing that you did ask questions. A lot of times talks
> seem to be "one-way", even if there is a question and answer period.
>
> I am at the NCAR center right now, and my host, Davide has just given me
> a personal tour of their computer center....a place where I consider
> "real computing" is done. ;-)
>
> My talk on Project Cauã will be at 1500 hours at their Foothills
> Lab, building #2 (see
> http://www2.ucar.edu/campus/foothills-laboratory-0-1-2-3 for details).
>
> I know a couple of people said they would like to hear that talk too.
>
> Warmest regards,
>
> md
>
> On Thu, 2011-08-25 at 13:50 +0000, dennisjperkins at comcast.net wrote:
>> I'm glad I was able to hear him speak last night. He's a very good and
interesting speaker. Thank you, Maddog, for your talk yesterday.
>>
>> He's a few years older than me, but I remember how computing was. The
first Apple II and the TRS-80. Working on tape drives, disk drives and tape
controllers at Storage Tech in 1981-1982. Seeing the Cray I (a
supercomputer) at Cray Research's headquarters. IBM mainframes. Univac's
water-cooled mainframe. Core memory. Loading programs from punch tape.
Bubble memory. Seeing my first 5 MB Seagate hard drive and feeling
underwhelmed because I was used to 650 MB hard drives for mainframes. I
never did see an Altair, but I remember seeing the Commodore Pet, the Sol I,
the Osborne, and other computers before the IBM PC came out. Saving programs
on cassettes. Entering data via hex keypads or toggle switches. I remember
seeing the first Mac and thinking it had too little memory and was
overpriced, but that that GUI is going to change things.
>>
>> In some ways we've come a long ways since then. But we also reinvented or
reimplemented some of the same technology 3 times... VM on mainframes, then
minicomputers, then microcomputers. As for the newest toys, smartphones and
tablets won't replace desktops; they will supplement them.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "daryl kuchay" <daryl.kuchay at gmail.com>
>> To: "CLUE's mailing list" <clue at cluedenver.org>
>> Sent: Wednesday, August 24, 2011 10:29:30 PM
>> Subject: [clue] Tonights meeting
>>
>> Hi All,
>>
>>
>> I would like to take a moment to do a 180 from my usual and say something
positive. Thank you to John "maddog" Hall and those involved with inviting
him in to speak for us. I found his presentation to be one of the more
interesting I have seen.
>>
>>
>> I came in to computers at the 286 days, took a break and reentered at the
release of Windows 95. maddog on the other hand has been involved with the
computer industry since 1969. It was very interesting to learn about how the
industry worked during that period as well as many of the politics involved.

>>
>>
>> This was at the level of intricate details and from a person who managed
teams of engineers working on digital unix among other projects that he
oversaw. Computers back then took a tractor trailer to move and a 200 ton
air conditioning system to keep at proper temperature. He highlighted how
software used to be open and an interested person had to build the software
on their computer due to a lack of support for the hardware in question.
>>
>>
>> One of the more memorable slides he presented from was a statement that
he quoted. "Unless one is familiar with history one is doomed to repeat it."
I am sure that is not word for word however it is great wisdom. Please take
a moment to visit the sponsors page, a project that Mr. Hall is personally
involved with: http://www.projectcaua.org/
>>
>>
>> Thanks again,
>>
>>
>> Daryl Kuchay
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