16 Jul
2023
16 Jul
'23
8:31 a.m.
Sad to hear about Don Lancaster. Things like this is what motivated me to
make the "domesticating the computer" video, which briefly mentions the TV
Typewriter - to honor these "living legends". I wish I could have fit in
more about Don and also Ted Nelson, author of Computer Lib. And speaking
of Ted, I wish I could grasp/understand Project Xanadu better. My only
explanation is that our typical/classical approach to "file management" has
borrowed all the concepts of the physical world -- a desktop, a cabinet
with drawers, containing folders and files. But in cyberspace there was no
real reason to follow that model, and we could have had a better approach
to linking information (in some more bi-directional fashion). I don't know
if that comes close to Xanadu's ideals, but that's my gist understanding.
Our spoken languages I think sometimes make it difficult to convey novel
ideas sometimes.
-SL
On Sat, Jul 8, 2023 at 10:08 PM Ethan Dicks via cctalk <
cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:
On Thu, Jul 6, 2023 at 6:26 PM Bill Degnan via
cctalk
<cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:
I am going throw out a Jim Butterfield too
I never got to meet him or correspond with him directly, but through
his articles and his work with TORPUG, he absolutely had a huge
indirect influence on my early years.
I did learn plenty from Don Lancaster too, but it was more general
knowledge than anything. I don't think I ever read something of his
that I didn't learn something from.
-ethan