Volunteer Information Exchange Sharing what we know with those we know Volume 1 Number 14 September 4, 2011 Contribute To The VIE Questions These questions need your answers The 55 th anniversary of RAMAC, the first ever hard drive, is coming up Sept. 4, 13, Q: The Hollerith sorter has 26 slots. 24 of those are or 14, depending on your definition of under control of the tabulator. Two have manual announcement. So we'll feature that handles, and are not controlled by the tabulator. Tim game-changing device in this issue. Robinson asks, “Does anyone know what those two manually operated slots are for?” Do you have a favorite artifact, one that you know a great deal about? One that Q: I know that when Xerox PARC gave extensive you know a great story about? demos of the Alto computer, windows user interface, etc. to Xerox executives in Rochester, NY, the execs Help us ensure that all those stories are were not impressed, but (some of) their wives were. passed along. Contribute to the VIE. My question is: I heard that one of those wives later Jim Strickland
[email protected] started a high tech company. Who, what company, was it successful, and did they use anything from PARC? Kim Harris This question was anwered by Al Kossow What if error messages were Q: A visitor told me that the speech given by the giant written in Haiku style? head in the Macintosh 1984 superbowl commercial was actually excerpted from a speech given by an IBM The Web site you seek executive.