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The CMA Circuit
VOLUME 7, ISSUE 2 HALL OF FAME COMMEMORATIVE ISSUE FALL 2004
Curator’s
Column
By David Weil
BACK TO THE PAST…
I have been speaking before a
variety of groups about the history
of computing and occasionally
offering my personal speculations
about where we are headed. It
seems to me that there are a great
number of sources for this sort of
opinion, but few are ever right on
the button. One exception is the
weekly PBS web column
I,Cringley. Written by the 12th
Apple employee and host of the
PBS series “Triumph of the Nerds,”
Robert X. Cringley is one of the few
who not only get it on the button
most of the time, but are smart
enough to know when they don’t.
His weekly columns are available at
www.pbs.org/cringley.
SPEAKING OF APPLES…
After moving out of the offsite
storage facility last month, the
Museum staff uncovered some long
lost treasurers. One was the Apple
Lisa model 1 pictured here:
2004 HALL of FAME
Online voting began earlier this year, hosted by HomeLAN.com.
The results reveal the top five popular choices for induction into the
Computer Hall of Fame. The top five vote-getters were:
Linus Torvalds
Vinton Cerf
Ken Thompson
Marc Andreesson
Bjarne Stroustrup
These five popular vote selections will join the Nomination Committee’s
selections for induction into the Hall of Fame are:
Howard Aiken
Paul G. Allen
Philo T. Farnsworth
John Mauchly
John Presper Eckert
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The Hall of Fame Inductees of 2004
Linus Torvalds After programming games on his first computer, a Commodore VIC 20, Torvalds
turned his interests to creating an alternative to the standard operating