22 Aug
2022
22 Aug
'22
4:24 p.m.
That's one of the "features" of the CHM oral history archives, they keep
older versions on line on "scholarly" principles.
I've suggest they keep only the current version on line and include a change
log to no avail
Tom
-----Original Message-----
From: Fred Cisin [mailto:cisin@xenosoft.com]
Sent: Sunday, August 21, 2022 11:32 PM
To: t.gardner(a)computer.org
Cc: 'General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts'
Subject: RE: [cctalk] Re: Wang bar napkin story [WAS:RE: Re: "Revival" of a
dedicated Micropolis webpage on internet]
On Sun, 21 Aug 2022, Tom Gardner wrote:
Fred:
Please quote the current version of the oral history, It says:
Porter: Jimmy said that you guys got together with the guys at Wang in
a dark bar one night and, after a discussion, you decided on the size
of what the smaller diskette should be and there was a cocktail napkin
on the bar which was 5 1/4" square <laughter> napkin <inaudible>.
That's Jimmy's story.
[Ed. note: Contacted in 2009, both Adkisson and Massaro stated that
there was never any such meeting in a bar with Dr. Wang]
5.25 and 3.5 Floppy Disk Oral History Panel (computerhistory.org)
<https://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/access/text/2013/05/102
657925
-05-01-acc.pdf> at page 10
Will you now stop promulgating this fable?
Yes. Knowing that BOTH deny it shows that it is an apocryphal tale.
I was, indeed, looking at an older version (2005) When I had only heard of
Massaro's refutation, I was wondering whether Adkisson agreed. Now, it is
clear.
Thank you.