8 Sep
2016
8 Sep
'16
1:58 p.m.
It's interesting to me that the Enterprise computers were effectively
command-and-control grammars, albeit somewhat freeform regarding the
commands (e.g., "Provide information about such-and-so" with no paramters
as to *what* knowledge). There were only a select few episodes about
self-aware or self-actualizing computers, and ISTR they were all critical.
-- Ian
On Thu, Sep 8, 2016 at 12:00 PM, jim stephens <jwsmail at jwsss.com> wrote:
On 9/8/2016 10:41 AM, Al Kossow wrote:
--
Ian S. King, MSIS, MSCS, Ph.D. Candidate
The Information School <http://ischool.uw.edu>
Dissertation: "Why the Conversation Mattered: Constructing a Sociotechnical
Narrative Through a Design Lens
Archivist, Voices From the Rwanda Tribunal <http://tribunalvoices.org>
Value Sensitive Design Research Lab <http://vsdesign.org>
University of Washington
There is an old Vulcan saying: "Only Nixon could go to China."
On 9/8/16 10:03 AM, Murray McCullough wrote:
I would say that Samuel Harbison's ascii art was impacted. He did a
project to produce ascii
art very early on (I think there is a tape floating around if you have a
spare impact line printer
around) which included a Spock picture. The image I think is dated 1973.
When I went to track him down to get permission to share his tape of
images, I went at it
just looking for the Sam Harbison of the header on the tape images. I then
realized he is the
Harbison of Harbison & Steel which was on the shelf behind me as my main C
programming
reference manual. Duh. He is a very nice fellow and said he had no
objection.
I noted Mike Loewen interviewed him about it some time later and did a
nice web page
about it.
http://i.imgur.com/K9EZq.jpg
http://privatewww.essex.ac.uk/~alien/aaa.html
https://savedparadigms.files.wordpress.com/2014/09/harbison-
s-p-steele-g-l-c-a-reference-manual-5th-ed.pdf
http://q7.neurotica.com/Oldtech/ASCII/
What role did Star Trek play in the rise of small
computers that are
so ubiquitous today?
The main thing that comes to mind is how often images or references to TOS
appear in mid-70's computing magazines.
