From: Clem Cole <clemc@ccc.com>
To: Adam Thornton <athornton@gmail.com>
Cc: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>,
Computer Old Farts Followers <coff@tuhs.org>,
Douglas McIlroy <douglas.mcilroy@dartmouth.edu>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] [COFF] Book Recommendation
Date: Mon, 6 Dec 2021 09:11:46 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAC20D2Og5X1NizpLU6coi9xEs25ff2JaWGyKkYX2iCUqXUaipA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
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Adam - first thank you. Pleased to know he's still kicking around.
On Sun, Dec 5, 2021 at 11:26 PM Adam Thornton <athornton@gmail.com> wrote:
> I don't think Don ever had a lot of crossover with the more academic world
> of Unix people, but he's one of my heroes and I have learned a hell of a
> lot from his works.
>
Not true at all. If you grew up as EE, in the late 1960s/early 1970s it
was hard to not know about him since he was so prolific. FWIW, before I
went to CMU, he was already a hero and I had a number of books from the
late 1960's. When I was freshman in the early 1970s, his TTL Cookbook was
an optional text for the intro to EE course [I already had it but a number
of my mates had never seen it before]. His CMOS Cookbox was not published
yet, but when it was, I bought it.
Side story, I want to say about 1969/70, after reading one of his articles
in Radio-Electronics I sent him a (US snail mail) letter asking him for
help in designing an RF interface to a TV. He replied to me but told me
such a design would be illegal to make as it would run afoul of FCC rules.
I wish I had kept that letter, but he reversed himself a few years later
with his TV Typewriter and Son of Video books. My guess is he had been
researching the idea for one of the magazines when I contacted him, and
must have gotten a ruling from legal counsel about publishing the same. I
always wondered what made him change his mind a few years later. Since he
seems to publish an email, I think I'll have to write him and ask that way
to see if he responds.
Clem
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Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-12-03 2:50 [TUHS] " Douglas McIlroy
2021-12-06 4:25 ` Adam Thornton
2021-12-06 4:42 ` Dan Halbert
2021-12-06 5:18 ` Charles H. Sauer
2021-12-06 14:11 ` Clem Cole [this message]
2021-12-06 14:22 ` [TUHS] [COFF] " Dan Cross
2021-12-06 14:29 Noel Chiappa
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