Re: [History] My Story, part 1 (1236 words)

2004-06-08 Thread Roozbeh Pournader
On Tue, 2004-06-08 at 10:08, Hooman Mehr wrote: > The spelling used by Roozbeh is the > official spelling used on someone's passport -- if he does not insist > otherwise. I'm very sorry. I forgot that you spell it with "oo". > I insisted on Hooman spelling and got it even on my > passport. So

Re: [History] My Story, part 1 (1236 words)

2004-06-07 Thread Hooman Mehr
On Jun 8, 2004, at 8:20 AM, C Bobroff wrote: Thank you, Hooman. [BTW, some of you may want to note the spelling of Hooman] Part 1 was great! I especially appreciated the Pre-history Thank you, too. If it wasn't for your insistence, I would never get myself into writing such things... By the

Re: [History] My Story, part 1 (1236 words)

2004-06-07 Thread C Bobroff
Thank you, Hooman. [BTW, some of you may want to note the spelling of Hooman] Part 1 was great! I especially appreciated the Pre-history section in Tabriz. As you know the Iranian Autobiography as a genre is very rare so what you're giving us is a real treat. I know it's difficult to expose y

Re: [History] My Story, part 1 (1236 words)

2004-06-07 Thread Roozbeh Pournader
On Mon, 2004-06-07 at 11:19, Hooman Mehr wrote: > P.S. 2: Roozbeh, and other old-timers: How about starting to write down > your own memories concerning history of Persian Computing as well? Come on guy, I'm not an old-timer. I started my career in Persian Computing about when you were leaving it

Re: [History] My Story, part 1 (1236 words)

2004-06-07 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
Hi Hooman, Thanks for the very interesting story. Although your story started roughly when I was born, but a great sense of deja vu still roams around yours. More comments below: On Mon, 7 Jun 2004, Hooman Mehr wrote: > It was the second semester and we had a basic programming course on > FORT

[History] My Story, part 1 (1236 words)

2004-06-06 Thread Hooman Mehr
Hi everybody, especially Connie, First of all, apologies for not being around for a while. I was kind of busy with miscellaneous obligations... I promised Connie to write something about the history of my involvement with Persian computing. This is the first part in a series of posts. It acts a