Herb Johnson wrote:
To Neil and Bill Sudbrink, other "engineers" : engineering issues about becoming more "abstracted" away from computing fundamentals, is certainly a consequence of evolving technology, throughout engineering. But I'm not talking about showing engineers how things used to be done - although that's something I do - the question is about more ordinary people who see our stuff, interact with us. We have to explain our legacy mostly to ordinary people, make it relevant or interesting to them.
Ok. I'll "blow my own horn" then. I think I was able to engage a number of more "ordinary" people with the Cyclops I exhibited at the just passed VCF East. Especially when I pointed out to them that the cell phone camera that they were using to take a picture had a direct lineage to the thing they were taking a picture of. Likewise, that the Dazzler computer display again, was an ancestor of the color display on their smart phone. Bill S.