What’s New in July
Dear Readers: We don’t have archives by issue, but the Complement’s format has been revised so that you can view all of the past articles on any given page. If there is a “Load More” link at the bottom of the page, clicking it will bring up the older articles — all arranged in chronologic order.
An added service feature — if you would like to get a personal email when we put out the RVMlist notice of a new issue or new material, email us at openinforvm@gmail.com and we will put you on the mailing list
NEWS & VIEWS
Estate Planning Matters, by Connie Kent
-Download your copy of the fillable form and get started
Dave Cochran Changed History, by Joni Johnson
-The death of the slide rule
How About That Complement? by Bob Buddemeier
The Experiment Continues — README Again!
– -An invitation to sample an opinion page
in In The Community
Birthday Luncheon Committee gains two new members — submitted by Jamie Harris
in Big, Borrowed, or Both
This Month’s special feature
A Special Book, by Sally Hayman
— An article on the Hawai’ian Pidgin translations of the New Testament and the Bible,
reprinted with permission from the Mirabella Monthly June 2021
3550: the Portland Mirabella quarterly magazine (most recent issue)
Mirabella Monthly, Newsletter of the Seattle Mirabella (Current issue)
ARTS & INFO
Rachel’s Curios, a photo-feature by Connie Kent and Reina Lopez
Pidgin Then and Now, by Tom Conger
— a complement to A Special Book
RVM July – October Event & Entertainment Schedule
July Library Display, by Anne Newins
How to Avoid a Climate Disaster — (Book Review), by Leslie Schettler and Anne Newins
Move to End Manor Segregation, by A. Looney
–Nit-Wit Newz goes to the dogs!
PREPARE
Hotsy-Totsy: A Review, by Bob Buddemeier
-Don’t put that mask away yet!
I enjoy reading the Mirabella magazines and the Nit-Wit Newz is very funny.
Keep up the good work!
I lived in Los Altos, CA, before we moved to Oregon. One day in 1970, my front door bell rang, and it was Barney Oliver, the Vice-President for Research at Hewlett-Packard. How I came to know Barney is not the intent of my message. He did hold in his hand an object which seemed very strange to me. He found a wall plug in my living room and plugged in this strange machine. Then he said, “Give me some outrageous numbers to add, subtract, multiply and divide.” Barney was not a person to scoff at; he was always serious in his endeavors. So I gave him some numbers; he touched keys in the machine, and surely the results were significant, but not clear to my non-engineering mind. Barney said, ” This object will change the world.” Of course, he was serious; I passed it off, thinking Barney had been drinking in the middle of the day. I offered coffee. We talked. Indeed, it was the first attempt at a calculator made by Hewlett-Packard, and it was earth shattering. That machine now lives in the Hewlett-Packard museum, unless the Smithsonian has escaped with it. My story surrounds Dave Cochran, whom Barney Oliver taught algorithms and who worked with Barney on the Bart system in the Bay Area. It’s a very small world, and one never knows if another person knows someone close to you. I loved Dave’s story.
This is an amazing story. I know Dave and Reina will read it. I can’t believe how many interesting anecdotes have come in about the HP-35 and how it touched people.
Hey Dr. Doyne, it’s your old friend Jeremy from USEM in 2010/11. I’ve been trying to find a way to contact you for years! Send me a message on LinkedIn, buddy!