George Morrow died Wed May 7th 2003

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