Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/09/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I''m a volunteer and docent at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA. I've been volunteering there since 2003. Recently one of my favorite people on the staff decided to retire and there was an all-afternoon retirement party for him in the main lobby of the Museum. I snapped a lot of pictures of people shmoozing and reduced the set to nine. Decided to make it an album, something I've only done once before. Making an album is really a pain; I may just give it up. Anyway here it is. One bit of commentary. After the informal shoozing period, we were deafened by feedback from a portable PA system that they had some trouble adjusting. When it finally got disciplined, the Vice President for Exhibits and Collections made a speech. Then the one for Education, who was Jim's immediate superior, made a shorter speech, with some emphasis on Jim's quirky sense of humor. She then handed the mike to him; he said three words: "So long suckers". After that, we crowded into the room where lives a reconstructed PDP1 computer (vintage 1960) and all got to sing "For He's a Jolly Good Fellow" to the accompaniment of a four-part version played by the computer; the guy who first programmed that computer to play four-part music in 1960 (Peter Sampson) spent the weekend programming "For He's a Jolly Good Fellow". http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/herbk1/McLure+Party/ Herbert Kanner kanner at acm.org 650-326-8204 Question authority and the authorities will question you.