Re: Alan Kay: The Early History of Smalltalk

From: Thomas Gagné (tgagne_at_wide-open-west.com)
Date: 10/21/03 

Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2003 18:54:34 -0400

M. Roberts wrote:

>Thomas,
>
>Thanks for taking the trouble to scan this article. It's worth having
>a 'fresh' copy available in HTML (especially once all the errors have
>been corrected ;-).
>
>One comment: I notice none of the pictures in the article -- and there
>were quite a few -- have been reproduced. I assume this is because the
>quality of the illustrations is too poor in the PDF, but I'm wondering
>if these are any better in the Proceedings of HOPL (History Of
>Programming Languages 2) book, and could be scanned from there.
>

Perhaps. Actually, the article wasn't scanned. I don't have a scanner.
 I typed it in. I thought it was the best way to get the HTML I wanted.
I thought about using xv to capture the pictures and including them.
 Perhaps next weekend?

The benefit of typing it in is I'm *very* familiar with it now... ;-) 

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