[TUHS] Fwd: [SIGCIS-Members] Need help identifying a photo

[clemc@ccc.com (Clem Cole)]

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Certainly looks like Ken without glasses just like first met him many years
ago,

On Wed, Jan 27, 2016 at 12:11 PM, Al Kossow <aek at bitsavers.org> wrote:

>
> 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 at 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>
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> ceruzzip at si.edu <mailto:ceruzzip at si.edu>
>
> 202-633-2414
>
>
>
>
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