Christie's auction and other computer history events

[Tony Duell]

> He also misses the point.  Except for nerds like us, nobody knows who any
> of the early computer pioneers were/are (with the exception of perhaps
> Thomas Watson Sr/Jr.)  If we're talking about papers from Einstein,

Hmmm.. My mother is no nerd, I don't think she's ever used a computer on 
here own. But she'd heard of Babbage, Eckert (although amazingly not 
Mauchley, how you can know one and not the other...) Wilkes, 
Williams/Kilburn, Hopper, Turing without any problem. She'd not haeard of 
Watson, though. 

-tony