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Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2001 20:15:37 -0700
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Dear SF Bay Swiss-Listers,
OCTOBER 23
Do you want to see a piece of the 1951 ERMETH computer, a whole series
of Smacky personal computers, a 1992 Gigabooster, a 1998 Swiss telephone
booth, in total more than 3.5 tons of pieces of Swiss computer history
that will be donated to the Computer Museum History Center ??? And eat
some real Swiss chocolate ???
Then please join us October 23 at 6:00pm at the Fairmont Hotel in San
Jose. It's free, it should be fun, it will be good networking. Here are
the details, the pictures, the directions and the registation procedure
:
http://www.ScienceLink.org/topic/computerhistory_04.htm
OCTOBER 17
And don't forget about the October 17 event, around the history of the
computer mouse at Xerox PARC in Palo Alto at 6:00pm. There are some
seats left, but not too many. Here some more information on the story
each speaker will tell :
- Bill English will talk about the initial ideas behind the computer
mouse during the 60's, while chief engineer for Doug Engelbart.
- Jean Daniel Nicoud will talk about the miniature displays and Doug
Engelbart - the initial keyboards he developed in 1972-73,
after his visit to SRI and the influence of Doug Engelbart's ideas
66-70. (He will bring the mouse prototypes 73+75+77+78.)
- Stuart Card will give some historical context about why finding a good
pointing device was important, the particulars about how
he got involved, which has to do with early PARC and the relationship to
Engelbart's group and Bill English, the surprising result of human
performance studies they ran, and the battle to get the mouse adopted.
He will bring along some early PARC mice to show.
- Niklaus Wirth will recount in narrative style his experiences at PARC,
and how he obtained a mouse that inspired the Depraz Inc.
to fabricate mice for the Liliths, and eventually transformed Logitech
from a software into a hardware company.
- Daniel Borel will talk about the evolution of Logitech, past, present
and future from the 80's onward.
Click here for more details and the registration. It's free again ...
http://www.ScienceLink.org/topic/computerhistory_03.htm
Hoping to seing you there !
Regards,
Christian
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Christian Simm, PhD
Swiss Science & Technology Office for Western USA and Western Canada
c/o Consulate General of Switzerland
456 Montgomery Street, Suite 1500
San Francisco, CA 94104 (USA)
phone : (415) 788-2272, extension 107 (direct) or 0 (operator)
fax : (415) 788-1402
e-mail : christian.simm_at_sciencelink.org
website : http://www.sciencelink.org
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