That's one of the "features" of the CHM oral history archives, they keep older versions on line on "scholarly" principles. I've suggest they keep only the current version on line and include a change log to no avail Tom
-----Original Message----- From: Fred Cisin [mailto:ci...@xenosoft.com] Sent: Sunday, August 21, 2022 11:32 PM To: t.gard...@computer.org Cc: 'General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts' Subject: RE: [cctalk] Re: Wang bar napkin story [WAS:RE: Re: "Revival" of a dedicated Micropolis webpage on internet] On Sun, 21 Aug 2022, Tom Gardner wrote: > Fred: > Please quote the current version of the oral history, It says: > Porter: Jimmy said that you guys got together with the guys at Wang in > a dark bar one night and, after a discussion, you decided on the size > of what the smaller diskette should be and there was a cocktail napkin > on the bar which was 5 1/4" square <laughter> napkin <inaudible>. > That's Jimmy's story. > [Ed. note: Contacted in 2009, both Adkisson and Massaro stated that > there was never any such meeting in a bar with Dr. Wang] > 5.25 and 3.5 Floppy Disk Oral History Panel (computerhistory.org) > <https://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/access/text/2013/05/102 > 657925 > -05-01-acc.pdf> at page 10 > Will you now stop promulgating this fable? Yes. Knowing that BOTH deny it shows that it is an apocryphal tale. I was, indeed, looking at an older version (2005) When I had only heard of Massaro's refutation, I was wondering whether Adkisson agreed. Now, it is clear. Thank you.
