Sad to hear about Don Lancaster. Things like this is what motivated me to make the "domesticating the computer" video, which briefly mentions the TV Typewriter - to honor these "living legends". I wish I could have fit in more about Don and also Ted Nelson, author of Computer Lib. And speaking of Ted, I wish I could grasp/understand Project Xanadu better. My only explanation is that our typical/classical approach to "file management" has borrowed all the concepts of the physical world -- a desktop, a cabinet with drawers, containing folders and files. But in cyberspace there was no real reason to follow that model, and we could have had a better approach to linking information (in some more bi-directional fashion). I don't know if that comes close to Xanadu's ideals, but that's my gist understanding. Our spoken languages I think sometimes make it difficult to convey novel ideas sometimes.
-SL On Sat, Jul 8, 2023 at 10:08 PM Ethan Dicks via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > On Thu, Jul 6, 2023 at 6:26 PM Bill Degnan via cctalk > <cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > > I am going throw out a Jim Butterfield too > > I never got to meet him or correspond with him directly, but through > his articles and his work with TORPUG, he absolutely had a huge > indirect influence on my early years. > > I did learn plenty from Don Lancaster too, but it was more general > knowledge than anything. I don't think I ever read something of his > that I didn't learn something from. > > -ethan >
