Wednesday 09/20/2023
Started the laundry early so as to be able to leave at 11am for various things.
Which included first, a stop at FOPAL. On Monday I had found two very valuable donations, things that were going for several hundred dollars on eBay. One was a copy of the Bell System Technical Journal for July 1978. This was the edition that had several articles describing the UNIX system, the first public announcement of UNIX. I had carefully put these in the High Value box, and emailed Nigel, the High Value manager. Yesterday he went by to pick them up and couldn’t find them. So today I stopped down there and searched the HV boxes and none of the books I’d put in were there. I was perturbed. Emails back and forth. Eventually Nigel found that the eBay sales manager had picked them up and was getting ready to sell them. So whew, and all that, but annoying.
On down to CHM where at 1pm my next-door neighbor Carolyn stopped by with her brother Doug, who is visiting from the East coast. Their father worked for IBM back in the pre-computer days. We walked around the parts of the museum we don’t go to on the tour, then they joined the 2pm tour which I led, and then we all watched the 1401 demo at 3pm.
Back home, I had a nap and then set up a mic for the monthly Birthday Dinner. Then up to the 11th floor to set up for a speaker coming at 7:30. This was Brian Neider who manages what used to be CAR, the support organization for developmentally disabled kids. Now it has merged with other agencies and is called Ability Path.
The auditorium equipment is supposedly being upgraded. I was in there to set up the mic for the birthdays and not much is happening. But anyway, events are now on 11, using the mobile TV/Zoom Room setup. This came off ok, although I think I messed up and it didn’t get recorded. So it goes.
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