[ale] Missing photo

[Jim Kinney]

Ha! Will tux up for spin at a babbage engine. Nice story.

On September 25, 2021 3:29:00 PM EDT, "jon.maddog.hall at gmail.com" <jonhall80 at comcast.net> wrote:
>I am sure that there are many people that are not represented in that
>row of pictures:
>
>Alan Turing - considered to be the father of computer science, broke
>the enigma code, cut two years off WW II, saved an estimated 14,000,000
>lives.
>
>Dr. Maurice Wilkes - Head of the EDSAC Project (first computer that
>could store its own programming in its own memory); credited with
>creating microcode, credited with creation of subroutines
>
>Ken Thompson
>
>Dennis Ritchie
>
>Douglas McIlroy - Head of the department that hired Ken and Dennis,
>conceived of pipes and filters, wrote some of first Unix commands to
>demonstrate their use, credited with the creation of macros.
>
>Vint Cerf - Considered to be the Father of the Internet
>
>Sir Tim Berners-Lee - Considered to be the Father of the WWW
>
>Richard M. Stallman - started GNU project and FSF
>
>There are many, many more.
>
>The Computer History Museum (CHM) has a "Hall of Fellows", where they
>induct three people every year.
>
>https://computerhistory.org/hall-of-fellows/
>
>About the year 2005 I started thinking that it would be a shame if
>either Bill Gates or Steve Jobs got inducted into the Hall of Fellows
>before Linus did, so I got online and nominated Linus for induction.   
>Then I forgot about it.
>
>Two years later I got a telephone call from the CHM that Linus had been
>selected for the year 2008 and could I help CHM convince Linus that he
>really wanted to attend the ceremony (which he normally hates) to
>receive it.
>
>I told them I was very happy that Linus had received the award and I
>would try to convince him to show up....but no promises.
>
>I started to look at their web pages, and got an idea.   I called up
>Linus (who by that time knew he had been inducted) and asked him if he
>would go.  "I would have to wear a Tuxedo", Linus said.   "I hate
>that".
>
>"I know, but you would also get to turn the crank of a full-size
>replica of the Babbage Difference Engine, and see it compute" I said.
>
>"I will go", Linus said.   And he did go.   And he did crank the
>engine.  All was good.
>
>And to this day neither Bill Gates nor Steve Jobs have been
>inducted....but The Woz made it in early.
>
>And now you know the rest of the story.
>
>md
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>>     On 09/20/2021 9:32 AM Jim Kinney via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:
>>      
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>>     If one makes a parts pilgrimage to the Duluth MicroCenter, the
>wall above the CPU and GPU cases is now adorned with photos of key
>people in the development of IT as we know it today. Grace Hopper,
>Steve Jobs (not Wozniac), Bill Gates, and other nameable luminaries.
>> 
>>     But not Linus Torvalds.
>>     --
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>>     Super computers are really
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