[TriLUG] Books that inspired us

[Sean Korb via TriLUG]

I think whimsical fantasy opened up my imagination, though I gobbled up
Heinlein, McCaffrey and Asimov like a Grue.  Tik-Tok of Oz and Jack
Pumpkinhead of Oz really set me up as an engineer after Tin Woodsman of Oz
and Scarecrow of Oz and especially Ozma of Oz caught my interest.

sean

On Mon, Sep 21, 2015 at 8:54 AM, Brian McCullough via TriLUG <
trilug at trilug.org> wrote:

> On Sat, Sep 19, 2015 at 08:18:00PM -0400, Triangle Linux Users Group
> discussion list wrote:
> >
> > Radio Amateur's Handbook ( beginning with the 1955 edition )
>
> Like JC, that was a big influence on my life, starting with later
> editions, but then I collected, from mentors and used book stores, many
> more copies of that and other similar books.
>
> I have always been a great lover of Science Fiction, with RAH and Andre
> Norton generally topping my list.  From those and the next, probably my
> interest in the idea of space exploration.  That and the events of the
> 1960s.
>
> I also remember an art book, I don't think it was by Chesley Bonestell,
> but somebody very like him, of imagined space stations, colonies and the
> like.
>
> "The 26 Letters," by Oscar Ogg!
>
> "The Art of Computer Programming," by Donald Knuth!
>
>
> Probably others that are in storage, and I don't remember, I think all
> influenced my attitudes, interests, and direction of my life in
> computers.
>
>
>
> Brian
>
>
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