Geekdom vs the Fourth Estate

From: John Lawson <jpl15_at_panix.com>
Date: Tue Oct 10 03:26:02 2000

  Here in India, because of my previous association with MGM Studios, I
find myself cast (rather unwillingly on my part) as a bit of a celebrity,
and so I have been interviewed by several different reporters from various
media.

  During an interview with a fellow from The Hindu, the largest paper in
India, we got into a discussion of my own personal recording studio and
collection of vintage electronic instruments. I had been asked to provide
photos, which I brought.

  In the pack pf pictures, two or three of my computer collection were
intermingled, and the discussion turned for a few minutes to the
preservation of technology in general, and why anyone would want a house
full of PDP11s, etc. They took several of the photos to run with the
article; I gave them a brief description of the studio and it's equipment,
and... they ran the picture of am DEC stuff, over the caption for the
music gear, after we all agreed *not* to.

  I'm *still* getting calls from tech-heads who can't figure out just what
model Moog Synth takes up 11 linear feet of 6' racks with a Kennedy 9100
stuck in the middle of it.

    sigh.

  This, more or less, has happened each and every time I have given a
press interview on a technical subject in the last 15 years.

  This one just happens to be classiccmp-related...


 Cheers

John
Received on Tue Oct 10 2000 - 03:26:02 BST