PLUG Meeting for March 14th
For our March
meeting William Lindley will present to us "75 Years of
Computing in 60 Minutes"
For more info, Meeting time and location see:
William Lindley: 75 Years of
Computing in 60 Minutes
The roots of modern digital computing go back nearly two hundred
years, and through a series of pass-around artifacts from the past
century, we will explore how the pioneers of the field and their
groundbreaking decisions and technologies have led us -- for
better or worse -- to today's Internet-enabled world.
About William
Mr. Lindley has been in the computer industry since he sold his
first program (a printer driver for Heathkit HDOS) in 1980. He has
used system from the earliest 8-bit microprocessors, through the
PDP-11 and VAX, up to IBM mainframes, and has managed to write
programs that did not crash on most of them. Mr. Lindley has been
a GNU/Linux user since 1992 and has been free of proprietary
software since 2001. Most recently he has been pleased to be an
adjunct professor at Mesa Community College.
The meeting will start at 7pm at The Desert Breeze
Substation. People start arriving as early as 6pm, so if you would
like to help setup and/or chat for a while, arrive a little early.
We will go for food (usually to BJs at the Chandler Fashion
Center Mall) after the meeting so we can chat with each other
comfortably. Please feel free to join us. Please come even if you
aren't hungry, the food is not mandatory.
See you there,
Brian Cluff