27 May
2014
27 May
'14
9:37 a.m.
On 27/05/2014 07:03, Eric Smith wrote:
On Mon, May 26, 2014 at 4:12 PM, Josh Dersch
<derschjo at gmail.com> wrote:
I haven't seen this but wonder how you assess fashion sense in an
historical perspective. A quick browse round the Newcastle 40th
Anniversary site
http://history.cs.ncl.ac.uk/anniversaries/40th/webbook/contents.html
shows there were significant numbers of female persons involved, and
many had intelligence, and possibly "fashion sense", but how can geeks
like us comment on what is or is not fashion sense. They were perhaps in
the minority, but a significant minority.
Mind I do remember being astounded watching one of our key-to-disk girls
keying with 2" finger nails... I think @ 20K key depressions per hour....
Dave
G4UGM
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Dave
G4UGM
Yes, it's insane to think that someone could
be intelligent *and* female
*and* have fashion sense at the same time.
God forbid, especially in this industry.
I'm reasonably certain that Sellam was talking about how things *actually*
were back in the early 1980s, not how they should have been, or how they
might be now, or how we might want the early 1980s portrayed in 21st
century television programs.
As with most generalizations, perhaps Sellam's wasn't 100% accurate, but it
was damn close. Unfortunately.