Book People Archive

Re: ARPANET Records

> However, when I tried this search on Google:
> 
> "Xerox Sigma V" received site:journals.iucr.org
> 
> the same article came up, and the snippet showed that it was 
> "Received. 26. July. 1972;" i.e. more than a year after Michael's 
> anniversary.
> 
> If you have read the article and it contains evidence supporting 
> Michael's version of events, please let us know.
> 
> Jose Menendez
> 
> [Moderator: In case it isn't clear for some folks who can only see the
>  snippets, the "Received" above refers to when the article mentioning
>  the use of the Xerox Sigma V was received by the editors of _Acta
>  Crystallographica Section B_, not when the Xerox Sigma V itself was
>  received by UIUC. - JMO]


John,

Thanks for adding that note to my post. When I wrote that last part, 
it didn't occur to me that some people might not realize that the "it" 
referred to the article, especially if they repeated the Google search 
and saw that the snippet read: "(Received. 26. July. 1972;. accepted 
12 February. 1973)." On the other hand, some people might not have 
repeated the search and assumed that I'd meant the computer, so I'm 
glad you made it clear.

The date the article was received is important, of course, because it 
was more than a year after Michael's anniversary. So the fact that the 
Xerox Sigma V was mentioned in the article doesn't provide much 
evidence that the computer was even there on July 4, 1971 (much less 
that it was ever connected to the ARPANET). That's why I asked 
Woodsjay whether he or she had read it. There might have been some 
mention, for instance, of the time period they were using the 
computer. When I did a search for 1971, it only returned a reference 
to another study: "Parameters from Melamud, Makovsky & Shaked (1971)."


Jose Menendez


P.S. I wasn't expecting to see any BP posts today. Didn't UPenn let 
you have a long weekend? ;)

[Moderator: No, but I took the 4th off, so this batch of posts is 
 delayed a bit.  We will also be on longer vacation after this week;
 details upcoming in a later standalone post. - JMO]