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From: aek@bitsavers.org (Al Kossow)
Subject: [TUHS] Fwd: [SIGCIS-Members] Need help identifying a photo
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2016 09:11:45 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <56A8FA51.30805@bitsavers.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <447612405A15694BAA260AEC80EB05393381B25D@SI-MSEDAG01.US.SINET.SI.EDU>

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Can someone here ID the mystery person?

Embarrassingly, CHM has the person misidentified as well.


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Subject: 	[SIGCIS-Members] Need help identifying a photo
Date: 	Wed, 27 Jan 2016 16:46:45 +0000
From: 	Ceruzzi, Paul <CeruzziP@si.edu>
To: 	members at lists.sigcis.org <members at lists.sigcis.org>



There is a famous photo on Wikimedia commons, of what purports to be Ken
Thompson & Dennis Ritchie in front of a PDP-11, presumably working on
UNIX. The problem is that the seated person doesn’t look like either of
them. And he is clean-shaven. Could it be Bjarne Stroustrup? Does anyone
recall seeing T&R w/o facial hair? Any help in tracking this down would
be much appreciated! The photo has been reprinted in many places, and
I’d like to track this down before I inadvertently propagate an error.

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ken_Thompson_(sitting)_and_Dennis_Ritchie_at_PDP-11_(2876612463).jpg

Paul E. Ceruzzi

Curator, Division of Space History

National Air and Space Museum

MRC 311, PO Box 37012

Smithsonian Institution

Washington, DC 20013-7012

www.ceruzzi.com <http://www.ceruzzi.com>

ceruzzip at si.edu <mailto:ceruzzip at si.edu>

202-633-2414



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       reply	other threads:[~2016-01-27 17:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <447612405A15694BAA260AEC80EB05393381B25D@SI-MSEDAG01.US.SINET.SI.EDU>
2016-01-27 17:11 ` Al Kossow [this message]
2016-01-27 17:26   ` Ronald Natalie
2016-01-27 17:30   ` Random832
2016-01-27 17:52     ` Al Kossow
2016-01-27 18:47       ` John Cowan
2016-01-27 17:55     ` Ronald Natalie
2016-01-27 18:23       ` Marc Rochkind
2016-01-27 18:34   ` Clem Cole
2016-01-27 22:10   ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2016-01-27 18:17 Doug McIlroy
2016-01-27 19:57 ` Al Kossow

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