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| BrianP Senior Member  Joined: 30/03/2017 Location: AustraliaPosts: 292 |
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/13/technology/tony-brooker-dead.html?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=edit_th_191214?campaign_id=2&instance_id=14500&segment_id=19604&user_id=18cf66948ef76cc9c2b3c73161a3475f®i_id=546062661214 |
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| Paul_L Guru  Joined: 03/03/2016 Location: United StatesPosts: 769 |
I finally found someone referenced here who is (was) older than I! Tony Brooker got his first compiler, AutoCode, working in the wild in 1954, three years before I began working on the 1401 assembler project at Cornell! Every morning, as I pick up my NY Times, I keep wondering if I am going to read my own obituary. Paul in NY |
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| Tinine Guru Joined: 30/03/2016 Location: United KingdomPosts: 1646 |
Oh wow, he took over from Alan Turing. I don't have a TV but watch an occasional Amazon movie/documentary. Watched "The Imitation Game" for the umpteenth time, the other night. I live only a few miles from the Manchester Science and Industry museum, need to re-visit. |
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| BrianP Senior Member Joined: 30/03/2017 Location: AustraliaPosts: 292 |
Hi Paul Under what category do I look for your obit...  B |
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| Paul_L Guru Joined: 03/03/2016 Location: United StatesPosts: 769 |
Ancient perplexing Polacks! |
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| BrianP Senior Member Joined: 30/03/2017 Location: AustraliaPosts: 292 |
And yet another one -------------------------------------------------------------- Chuck Peddle Dies at 82; His $25 Chip Helped Start the PC Age His invention brought digital technology to a new breed of consumer devices and powered early Apple and Commodore computers... -------------------------------------------------------------- B |
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| Paul_L Guru Joined: 03/03/2016 Location: United StatesPosts: 769 |
This makes me very nervous! Chuck Peddle started work in a radio station in Bangor Maine two years before I started working for WDLA in Walton, NY. He joined the Marines two years before I joined the Air Force ROTC. He began working on the Motorola 6800 development in two years before I began cleaning up the GM DELCO Inertial Carousel dithering at Pan Am. In 1975 he headed up the 650x processor design at MOS which was the basis of the Apple II and was the first significant competitor for the Intel 8080. That's about the time that I disappeared into the bowels of the 747 aircraft mostly trying to find all the bugs that Boeing and the contractors had left behind. There's only one thing I have left to do to catch up with Chuck. Paul in NY. Remind me sometime to tell you about the bug I found in the 1953 Sperry Gyroscope C-6 gyro compass system in December 1991. |
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bigmik Guru Joined: 20/06/2011 Location: AustraliaPosts: 2867 |
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