Friday 01/26/2024
Took a shorter walk in the morning. Then did a couple of minor things and some guitar practice until lunch at 11:30. Right after lunch I put on my red docent shirt and left for the museum. There I led a custom tour for 20 Stanford Law students. I adjusted my usual route to include the Atanasoff sort-of-computer which I normally don’t cover. But now I could tell law students about the huge Sperry-Honeywell patent suit that invalidated Mauchly’s ENIAC patents and established that the digital computer was a public idea for anyone to use.
They stuck with me through my extended tour, probably an hour and a quarter, and seemed interested, so that was flattering.
Codgerville 