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From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>
To: Cyb <cybermind@listserv.aol.com>,
"WRYTING-L : Writing and Theory across Disciplines" <WRYTING-L@LISTSERV.UTORONTO.CA>
Subject: [CM>] More Sad News (fwd)
Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2004 16:24:40 -0400 (EDT)
---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2004 09:50:36 -0700 From: Michael Hart <hart@PGLAF.ORG> Reply-To: Michael S. Hart <hart@pobox.com> To: CYHIST@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU Subject: [CM>] More Sad News ______________________________________________________________________ Community Memory: Discussion List on the History of Cyberspace ______________________________________________________________________ CREATOR OF ASCII CODE SYSTEM DIES AT 84 Bob Bemer, who helped invent the widely used ASCII (pronounced "AS-kee") coding system for representing text in a computer has died from complications related to cancer. Bemer's long career, which began in 1949, included positions at RAND Corporation, IBM, Univac, and Honeywell. His death came at age 84. His stepson noted, "He never got the coding out of his system. He was a coder until he couldn't code any more. He lived it and breathed it." Both his interest in coding and his interest in a better world are shown in his personal motto: ((((DO SOMETHING!) SMALL) USEFUL) NOW!). (AP/USA Today 23 Jun 2004) http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2004-06-23-bemer_x.htm [Not Quite A Death, But To Some It Seems So] NO COMDEX THIS YEAR The organizers of the popular Comdex computer shows, which have been presented each November for almost a quarter of a century, are canceling (or "postponing") this year's conference. MediaLive International, which runs the show, says the next Comdex will take place in Las Vegas in November 2005. For many years Comdex was an event pitched to the general computer-buying public, but since the bursting of the technology bubble it's been focused on corporate buyers and sellers. (AP/San Jose Mercury News 23 Jun 2004) http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/8995205.htm Michael S. Hart <hart@pobox.com> Project Gutenberg Executive Coordinator "*Internet User ~#100*" Give FreeBooks!!! In 31 Languages!!! As of June 25, 2004 ~13,050 FreeBooks at: http://gutenberg.net ~6,950 to go to 20,000 We are ~1/3 of the way from 10,000 to 20,000. If you do not receive a prompt reply, please resend, keep resending. ______________________________________________________________________ Posted by David S. Bennahum (davidsol@panix.com) Moderator: Community Memory http://memex.org/community-memory.html A CPSR Project -- http://www.cpsr.org -- cpsr@cpsr.org Materials may be reposted in their *entirety* for non-commercial use. Get this list in digest form: SET CYHIST DIGEST Leave this list: SIGNOFF CYHIST Send these commands to: LISTSERV@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU ______________________________________________________________________