Heinz Lemke, who wrote the PDP-7 code between 1967 and 1972, and published Wiseman, Lemke, and Hiles, "PIXIE: A New Approach to Graphical Man-Machine Communication" in 1969, is still doing cool things, like actively running the Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery conference that he founded, and diligently working as Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery:
I found the reference to his 1969 PIXIE paper, which describes his radial menus, in December 1986. His pioneering work inspired me over many decades to publish papers and develop pie menus for X10, NeWS, X11, TCL/Tk, ActiveX, JavaScript, SimCity, and The Sims.
I have been tracking down his PIXIE papers, the films, and the listing since February 2019, to tell his story and give him credit while he is still alive and active, and to see and feel first hand how his radial menus worked with a light pen.
Please explain and justify what specific objections you have to using AI to OCR and correct the scans of handwritten notes and 128 pages of line printer listings, and implementing an emulator that runs that code in a web browser? Can you suggest a better approach?
It simply would not have been possible to do in this time frame at such a low cost without AI. I am doing it all on my own time, paying for it all out of my own pocket, while Heinz is still around to help by scanning his listings, papers and handwritten notes, generously answering my questions, and patiently explaining the history and details of his work.
PIXIE System Analysis -- Heinz Lemke's hand written scanned notes and AI assisted transcript:
How do you suggest I should have done anything differently? Are you volunteering your own time to help out with this project without using AI?
If you want to do cool things without AI, I could certainly use your help proofreading the transcript of his handwritten notes, carefully looking at these 128 pages of line printer listings from 1972, cross checking the octal machine code against the PDP-7 assembly language, and debugging the code in the emulator, or a real PDP-7 if you are lucky enough to have access to one. The scans, the assembly, and the octal are all here:
Please submit PRs for any errors you find, and I will appreciate and credit your constructive criticism more than your banal unhelpful drive-by knee-jerk anti-ai trolling, which is all your Hacker News posting history currently contains.
Or do you think I just should not have done any of this research and work at all, nor published it as free open source code for other people and museums to use, nor shared it on Hacker News?
Heinz Lemke, who wrote the PDP-7 code between 1967 and 1972, and published Wiseman, Lemke, and Hiles, "PIXIE: A New Approach to Graphical Man-Machine Communication" in 1969, is still doing cool things, like actively running the Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery conference that he founded, and diligently working as Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery:
https://cars-int.org/
https://cars-int.org/editorial-board/
I found the reference to his 1969 PIXIE paper, which describes his radial menus, in December 1986. His pioneering work inspired me over many decades to publish papers and develop pie menus for X10, NeWS, X11, TCL/Tk, ActiveX, JavaScript, SimCity, and The Sims.
I have been tracking down his PIXIE papers, the films, and the listing since February 2019, to tell his story and give him credit while he is still alive and active, and to see and feel first hand how his radial menus worked with a light pen.
Please explain and justify what specific objections you have to using AI to OCR and correct the scans of handwritten notes and 128 pages of line printer listings, and implementing an emulator that runs that code in a web browser? Can you suggest a better approach?
It simply would not have been possible to do in this time frame at such a low cost without AI. I am doing it all on my own time, paying for it all out of my own pocket, while Heinz is still around to help by scanning his listings, papers and handwritten notes, generously answering my questions, and patiently explaining the history and details of his work.
PIXIE System Analysis -- Heinz Lemke's hand written scanned notes and AI assisted transcript:
https://github.com/SimHacker/WillWrightShowForFood/tree/main...
https://github.com/SimHacker/WillWrightShowForFood/blob/main...
How do you suggest I should have done anything differently? Are you volunteering your own time to help out with this project without using AI?
If you want to do cool things without AI, I could certainly use your help proofreading the transcript of his handwritten notes, carefully looking at these 128 pages of line printer listings from 1972, cross checking the octal machine code against the PDP-7 assembly language, and debugging the code in the emulator, or a real PDP-7 if you are lucky enough to have access to one. The scans, the assembly, and the octal are all here:
https://github.com/SimHacker/WillWrightShowForFood/tree/main...
The version the browser emulator runs is here:
https://github.com/SimHacker/WillWrightShowForFood/tree/main...
Please submit PRs for any errors you find, and I will appreciate and credit your constructive criticism more than your banal unhelpful drive-by knee-jerk anti-ai trolling, which is all your Hacker News posting history currently contains.
Or do you think I just should not have done any of this research and work at all, nor published it as free open source code for other people and museums to use, nor shared it on Hacker News?