Pioneers of WIMPishness (was: A great Alan Kay quote)
Christos TZOTZIOY Georgiou
tzot at sil-tec.gr
Thu Feb 10 18:17:07 EST 2005
On Thu, 10 Feb 2005 03:08:11 GMT, rumours say that claird at lairds.us (Cameron
Laird) might have written:
[more snipping]
>With a little provocation, I can push the ideas of "mechanical"
>or "machine" referencing back at least to the Enlightenment, and
>arguably much farther.
Please ignore my earlier post, since it was mistakenly sent incomplete.
about "arguably much farther":
http://www.ancient-mysteries.com/greece2000/Main/Main2/Main3/Anti-Main/anti-main.html
and
http://www.smith.edu/hsc/museum/ancient_inventions/battery2.html
and
http://www.smith.edu/hsc/museum/ancient_inventions/steamengine2.html
Nice page, this:
http://www.smith.edu/hsc/museum/ancient_inventions/hsclist.htm
--
TZOTZIOY, I speak England very best.
"Be strict when sending and tolerant when receiving." (from RFC1958)
I really should keep that in mind when talking with people, actually...
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