3 Jul
2013
3 Jul
'13
10:29 a.m.
From: Christina Engelbart <christina.engelbart at gmail.com>
Date: Wednesday, July 3, 2013 6:31 AM
Subject: update on my father
Very sorry to inform my father passed away in his sleep peacefully at home last night. His
health had been deteriorating of late, and took turn for worse on the weekend. I will
circle back around
soon, for now just wanted to give you all advance notice and look forward to discussing
your thoughts as I am a bit fuzzy at present.
3 Jul
3 Jul
11:03 a.m.
Al Kossow wrote:
From: Christina Engelbart <christina.engelbart at
gmail.com>
Date: Wednesday, July 3, 2013 6:31 AM
Subject: update on my father
Very sorry to inform my father passed away in his sleep peacefully at
home last night. His health had been deteriorating of late, and took
turn for worse on the weekend. I will circle back around soon, for now
just wanted to give you all advance notice and look forward to
discussing your thoughts as I am a bit fuzzy at present.
:(
Peace... Sridhar
12:34 p.m.
Thanks for the information, Al. Sad news.
Regards.
SPc.
2013/7/3 Al Kossow <aek at bitsavers.org>
From: Christina Engelbart <christina.engelbart at
gmail.com**>
Date: Wednesday, July 3, 2013 6:31 AM
Subject: update on my father
Very sorry to inform my father passed away in his sleep peacefully at home
last night. His health had been deteriorating of late, and took turn for
worse on the weekend. I will circle back around soon, for now just wanted
to give you all advance notice and look forward to discussing your thoughts
as I am a bit fuzzy at present.
1:09 p.m.
On Wed, 3 Jul 2013, Al Kossow wrote:
From: Christina Engelbart <christina.engelbart at
gmail.com>
Date: Wednesday, July 3, 2013 6:31 AM
Subject: update on my father
Very sorry to inform my father passed away in his sleep peacefully at home
last night. His health had been deteriorating of late, and took turn for
worse on the weekend. I will circle back around soon, for now just wanted to
give you all advance notice and look forward to discussing your thoughts as I
am a bit fuzzy at present.
Please give my best to his family.
g.
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2:48 p.m.
On Wed, 3 Jul 2013, geneb wrote:
On Wed, 3 Jul 2013, Al Kossow wrote:
Likewise for me. He accomplished a great thing.
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From: Christina Engelbart <christina.engelbart
at gmail.com>
Date: Wednesday, July 3, 2013 6:31 AM
Subject: update on my father
Very sorry to inform my father passed away in his sleep peacefully at home
last night. His health had been deteriorating of late, and took turn for
worse on the weekend. I will circle back around soon, for now just wanted to
give you all advance notice and look forward to discussing your thoughts as I
am a bit fuzzy at present.
Please give my best to his family.
g.
3:02 p.m.
-----Original Message-----
From: Tony Duell <ard at p850ug1.demon.co.uk>
To: cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
Sent: Thu, Jul 4, 2013 3:04 pm
Subject: Re: Doug Englebart
Please also pass on my condolences to the family. He was a great man,
he
had a great influence on the computing worlf.
-tony
Please pass on mine also.
John Keys
Please give my
best to his family.
g.
Likewise for me. He accomplished a great thing.
6 Jul
6 Jul
5:20 p.m.
-----Original Message-----
From: Tony Duell <ard at p850ug1.demon.co.uk>
To: cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
Sent: Thu, Jul 4, 2013 3:04 pm
Subject: Re: Doug Englebart
Please also pass on my condolences to the family. He was a great man,
he
had a great influence on the computing worlf.
-tony
Also give my best to the family. This is my second time trying to send
this message.
John Keys
Please give my
best to his family.
g.
Likewise for me. He accomplished a great thing. 
3 Jul
3 Jul
5:01 p.m.
On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 6:29 PM, Al Kossow <aek at bitsavers.org> wrote:
From: Christina Engelbart <christina.engelbart at
gmail.com>
Date: Wednesday, July 3, 2013 6:31 AM
Subject: update on my father
Very sorry to inform my father passed away in his sleep peacefully at home
last night. His health had been deteriorating of late, and took turn for
worse on the weekend. I will circle back around soon, for now just wanted to
give you all advance notice and look forward to discussing your thoughts as
I am a bit fuzzy at present.
The BBC has put some thing together
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-23174052
Dave Caroline
5 Jul
5 Jul
12:49 p.m.
Christina
I am curator of Museu do Computador, Brazil. My condolences to you and your
parents.
I have a mouse replica of the first mouse by wood.
Jose Carlos Valle
curator and owner
BRAZIL
2013/7/3 Dave Caroline <dave.thearchivist at gmail.com>
On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 6:29 PM, Al Kossow <aek at
bitsavers.org> wrote:
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https://picasaweb.google.com/106104991898610117718/Desktop#5762470482731194…
From: Christina Engelbart <christina.engelbart
at gmail.com>
Date: Wednesday, July 3, 2013 6:31 AM
Subject: update on my father
Very sorry to inform my father passed away in his sleep peacefully at
home
last night. His health had been deteriorating of
late, and took turn for
worse on the weekend. I will circle back around soon, for now just
wanted to
give you all advance notice and look forward to
discussing your thoughts
as
I am a bit fuzzy at present.
The BBC has put some thing together
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-23174052
Dave Caroline
3 Jul
3 Jul
9:21 p.m.
Please tell her that she and her family our in our thoughts.
It is a very sad day.
________________________________
From: Al Kossow <aek at bitsavers.org>
To:
Sent: Wednesday, July 3, 2013 1:29 PM
Subject: Doug Englebart
From: Christina Engelbart <christina.engelbart at gmail.com>
Date: Wednesday, July 3, 2013 6:31 AM
Subject: update on my father
Very sorry to inform my father passed away in his sleep peacefully at home last night. His
health had been deteriorating of late, and took turn for worse on the weekend. I will
circle back around
soon, for now just wanted to give you all advance notice and look forward to discussing
your thoughts as I am a bit fuzzy at present.
4 Jul
4 Jul
4:58 a.m.
New subject: Doug Engelbart
Correcting the subject. Please don't follow up using the typo'd subject.
Thinking of Dr Engelbart as I use this Apple one button optical mouse.
--Toby
5:29 a.m.
New subject: Doug Engelbart
On 4 July 2013 12:58, Toby Thain <toby at telegraphics.com.au> wrote:
Correcting the subject. Please don't follow up
using the typo'd subject.
Thinking of Dr Engelbart as I use this Apple one button optical mouse.
--Toby
That genius invented the entire modern computer experience...
coverage? What coverage?
(There's been a little...)
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time on this earth! We weren't meant to spend it this way. Human
beings were not meant to sit in little cubicles staring at computer
screens all day, filling out useless forms and listening to eight
different bosses drone on about about mission statements."
-- Peter Gibbons
6:47 a.m.
New subject: Doug Engelbart
From: John Many Jars <john at yoyodyne-propulsion.net>
On 4 July 2013 12:58, Toby Thain <toby at telegraphics.com.au> wrote:
That genius invented the entire modern computer
experience...?coverage?? What coverage?
?(There's been a little...)
While you wont see it on local news nor something like CNN/FOX there are news sources
covering it.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/04/technology/douglas-c-engelbart-inventor-o…
http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/douglas-engelbart-computer-visionary…
http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/obituaries/2013/07/03/douglas-engelbart-in…
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2013/07/03/198448726/inventor-of-comput…
7:28 a.m.
New subject: Doug Engelbart
NPR ran a short segment this morning... I don't have a link.
Bill S.
9:23 a.m.
New subject: Doug Engelbart
On Thu, 4 Jul 2013, Christian Liendo wrote:
On 4 July 2013 12:58, Toby Thain <toby at
telegraphics.com.au> wrote:
[...]
Engelbart did not invent the computer mouse, that work applies to the
engineers of Telefunken (it wasn't seen as an *invention* because that
kind of input was /obvious/, no need to patent a banality).
Christian
That genius invented the entire modern computer
experience...?coverage?? What coverage? ?(There's been a little...)
While you wont see it on local news nor something like CNN/FOX there are
news sources covering it.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/04/technology/douglas-c-engelbart-inventor-o…
2:12 p.m.
New subject: Doug Engelbart
The Mouse
Trackballs, light pens, and other clever pointing devices were widespread. Then the mouse
was invented. Twice. (Well, at least twice.)
Doug Engelbart reportedly conceived the mouse during a conference lecture in 1961. His
first design, in 1963, used rolling wheels inspired by mechanical area-measuring devices
called planimeters invented in the 1800s.
Engineers at Germany?s Telefunken also invented a mouse in the mid-1960s. First described
in 1968, their version used a rolling ball?essentially a small, upside-down
trackball?which became the standard for decades.
http://www.computerhistory.org/revolution/input-output/14/350
Sent from Yahoo! Mail on Android
5 Jul
5 Jul
1:36 a.m.
New subject: Doug Engelbart
On Thu, 4 Jul 2013, Christian Liendo wrote:
Engineers at Germany?s Telefunken also invented a
mouse in the
mid-1960s. First described in 1968, their version used a rolling
Actually, it was already mentioned in 1966, so they must have developed it
in the first half of the 60s. (see
ftp://computermuseum.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/telefunken/tr440/doku/TR440_Mai1966.pdf
page 20)
Christian
4 Jul
4 Jul
11:26 p.m.
New subject: Doug Engelbart
On 04.07.2013 18:23, Christian Corti wrote:
Engelbart did not invent the computer mouse, that work
applies to the engineers
of Telefunken (it wasn't seen as an *invention* because that kind of input was
/obvious/, no need to patent a banality).
Why did I *wait* for THIS comment coming from you???
Kind regards
Philipp :-)
--
2:31 p.m.
New subject: Doug Engelbart
On 7/3/13 10:29 AM, "Al Kossow" <aek at bitsavers.org> wrote:
From: Christina Engelbart <christina.engelbart at
gmail.com>
Date: Wednesday, July 3, 2013 6:31 AM
Subject: update on my father
Very sorry to inform my father passed away in his sleep peacefully at
home last night. His health had been deteriorating of late, and took turn
for worse on the weekend. I will circle back around
soon, for now just wanted to give you all advance notice and look forward
to discussing your thoughts as I am a bit fuzzy at present.
I am very sorry to receive this news on a couple of levels. Doug was on
the 'short list' of a research project for which I am seeking funding, to
collect social/cultural oral histories from such key innovators in the
emergence of interactive computing. (This is not part of the Living
Computer Museum, but rather my work as a PhD researcher.) Doug was in my
top five, given his significance and, to be honest, his age. We are
losing our pioneers. We know what they did: the purpose of my work is to
preserve the story of what they thought about it, what they saw as they
looked out across the social and cultural landscape of their times. I'm
running out of time.
Having lost parents to death, my heart feels sympathy with Christina. My
soul grieves for the loss to us all of a member of the community of
innovation that has transformed the world in an eyeblink of history. --
Ian
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