Black bar for Bell please?
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Gordon Bell has died
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#32Sad news. If readers haven't come across it already, recommend his book "Computer Engineering". Available still in print and also on the kindle platform. https://www.amazon.com/Computer-Engineering-Hardware-Systems...
Also on bitsavers: http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/dec/_Books/Bell-ComputerEnginee...
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#33Sad news. If readers haven't come across it already, recommend his book "Computer Engineering". Available still in print and also on the kindle platform. https://www.amazon.com/Computer-Engineering-Hardware-Systems...
The Gordon Bell's webpage has the free pdf version as @DoctorR posted https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40434375
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#34My father worked with him at CMU and the story he always told (while possibly apocryphal) was that the reason that the ASCII bell character sequence was CRTL-G was because of Gordon.
code 007, it's a secret
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#35Here’s a link to Mashey’s post on mstdn: https://mstdn.social/@JohnMashey/112477330642538953 It’s short enough that I’ll quote it here. “I am very sad to report death May 17 at age 89 of Gordon Bell, famous computer pioneer, a founder of Computer Museum in Boston, and a force behind the @ComputerHistory her in Silicon Valley, and good friend since the 1980s. He succumbed to aspiration pneumonia in Coronado, CA. I'm t…
In the thread below his preview post, Mashey added the following (edited for typos):
"When I lead tours of Computer History Museum, I usually say there were 3 giants in the early decades of computer architecture:
Gene Amdhal - mainframes
Gordon Bell - minicomputers
Seymour Cray - supercomputers
and I was lucky to know the first two well, never met Cray."
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#36https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MyLifeBits
> MyLifeBits is a life-logging experiment begun in 2001. It is a Microsoft Research project inspired by Vannevar Bush's hypothetical Memex computer system. The project includes full-text search, text and audio annotations, and hyperlinks. The "experimental subject" of the project is computer scientist Gordon Bell, and the project will try to collect a lifetime of storage on and about Bell.. For this, Bell has digitized all documents he has read or produced, CDs, emails, and so on. He continues to do so, gathering web pages browsed, phone and instant messaging conversations and the like more or less automatically. The book Total Recall describes the vision and implications for a personal, lifetime e-memory for recall, work, health, education, and immortality. In 2010, Total Recall was published in paperback. As of 2016, Bell was no longer using the wearable camera associated with the project. He described the rise of the smartphone as largely fulfilling Bush's vision of the Memex.
"Total Recall" (2009) by Gordon Bell, https://www.amazon.com/Total-Recall-Memory-Revolution-Everyt...
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#37My father worked with him at CMU and the story he always told (while possibly apocryphal) was that the reason that the ASCII bell character sequence was CRTL-G was because of Gordon.
https://www.sensitiveresearch.com/Archive/CharCodeHist/X3.4-...
ASCII was developed in 1963 by a guy from IBM while Bell was at DEC. However since Bell has worked in the PDP's UART, it's possible...
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#38From the Computer History Museum homepage: > REMEMBERING CHM COFOUNDER GORDON BELL > CHM is saddened to share the news that Museum cofounder and Fellow Gordon Bell passed away on May 17, 2024. Bell was a prominent American electrical engineer and computer scientist who made a tremendous impact on the world of computing—from handheld devices to supercomputers. Bell is in the pantheon of brilliant computer designers th…
It was unfortunate (at least for East Coasters) that the Computer Museum moved to the West Coast in 1999 -- I used to enjoy visiting it in Boston in the 1980s and 1990s. But I suppose with the decline of DEC and the rise of Microsoft and Apple in the 1980s that the center of the computer industry moved West too.
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#39I went to Mountain View/SV/California for the first time maybe 5 years ago and the CHM was so much cooler than I expected. It made me incredibly envious to have grown up on the east coast in the 90s where none of my friends had a computer until the early-mid 2000s instead of CA. Everyone I knew online was from California for a LONG time. I feel like I missed out on so much cool stuff because I learned most things out of Barnes and Noble books that I couldn't afford instead of being enmeshed in the culture.
Rest in peace
Re: Gordon Bell has died
#40My father worked with him at CMU and the story he always told (while possibly apocryphal) was that the reason that the ASCII bell character sequence was CRTL-G was because of Gordon.
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