George Morrow died Wed May 7th 2003

From: John Lawson <jpl15_at_panix.com>
Date: Fri May 9 14:25:00 2003

On Fri, 9 May 2003, Vintage Computer Festival wrote:

> On Fri, 9 May 2003, Thomas Dzubin wrote:
>
> > Some sad news...
>
> This totally sucks and is indeed sad news.


   Epistomology

   I

 Kick at the rock, Sam Johnson, break your bones:
 But cloudy, cloudy is the stuff of stones.


  II

 We milk the cow of the world, and as we do,
 We whisper in her ear : "You are not true!"

Richard Wilbur


  And what it means is - that even now we begin to lose the great people
who have been at the foundations of the technology that modern
'civilization' is founded upon, and seemingly no one takes notice. They
are silently passing and who knows? Who cares? What network runs a
'Special: The Passing of a Nerd'

 Yet - if every digital device were to cease working tomorrow - just how
close to the Stone Age do ya think we'd sink?


  George Babbage
  Alan Turing
  John von Neumann
  Grace Hopper
  Howard Aiken
   and on and on...

  I spoke with George Morrow in the early 80s - several times. I worked
(for a short but excruciating time) for a rat-box computer store that sold
Morrow stuff - there were several very serious issues with the
MicroDecision IIs that we sorted out...

  But: O well....


 John
Received on Fri May 09 2003 - 14:25:00 BST