Number 293 - October 2007

Lest We Forget
by A. P. C. Nerd (ACGNJ) Sept 2007
While the ACGNJ was on summer hiatus, a sad anniversary passed. It's an occasion that should be declared a world holiday, with a momentous name like; "International Cosmic Injustice Day". July 11 , 2007 marked the 13 year since the death of Dr. Gary Arlen Kildall. He was the real "Father of the Personal Computer Revolution"; the true progenitor of all things now credited to the Great God Gates. I'm not going to say anything further here, since I don't want to get the club (or myself) sued. However, if you want to see Gary get a little bit of his own back (from beyond the grave); follow the Groklaw link below ((c) 2003-2007 by Pamela Jones) to a report about a recently dismissed lawsuit--For History's Sake: Paterson v. Little Brown www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20070730170729505.    In addition to the main text, that report contains a lot of user comments; and many interesting additional links as well. I'm only going to list two of them. The first is by our very own club founder (copyright 1995 by the ACGNJ): The Gary Kildall Legacy, by Sol Libes www.kegel.com/remedy/archive/newsx011.html    The second is a video from the Internet Archive (www.archive.org), released under the Creative Commons License. According to their home page; "The Internet Archive is building a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. Like a paper library, we provide free access to researchers, historians, scholars, and the general public." Computer Chronicles Gary Kildall Special (1995) www.archive.org/details/GaryKild    This video was done as a memorial by former co-workers. (Gary had been an early co-host on the show). About this TV series, the Internet Archive said (in part); "Hosted by Stewart Cheifet, Computer Chronicles was the world's most popular television program on personal technology during the height of the personal computer revolution. It was broadcast for twenty years (1983-2002), and was seen on more than 300 television stations in the United States and in over 100 countries worldwide, with translations into French, Spanish, Chinese, and Arabic. The series had a weekly television broadcast audience of over two million viewers".    Sir Isaac Newton reportedly said; "If I have seen farther than other men, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants". (That's the quote as I remember reading it many years ago--a little different from the quote as it's found on the Internet today).	Let us not forget the giant whose shoulders we are all standing on.        Gary Kildall,    May 19, 1942-July 11, 1994
Number 293 - October 2007