When Craig Reynolds
sent me a link to Tom Bombadil's Facebook Page I did not at first realize why he asked about this person.
Tom Bombadil is of
course an enigmatic character from Tolkien's Lord of the Rings series
who is the only one in all middle earth who is not affected by the
One Ring and seems to be indifferent to the power of Sauron in some
way.
Then I looked more
closely at this Tom Bombadil and saw the Symbolics 3600 component
boards. The 3600 was one of the original Lisp Machines that came
from the MIT AI Lab and was commercialized by two different
companies, Symbolics, Inc and LMI, Inc.
Look closely at the top of the picture
Only a member of the
inner elite would have access to one of these or understand its
significance.
Therefore we can
ask, who is Tom Bombadil?
So I sent an email to Tom and asked him about himself and what was up. He replied immediately from Germany.
Its nice to know that we had a positive impact on someone. Those were back in those naive and idealistic days when we thought that inventing computing and computer animation was going to help the world, not merely provide more opportunities to steal and support corrupt governments.
So I sent an email to Tom and asked him about himself and what was up. He replied immediately from Germany.
Its nice to know that we had a positive impact on someone. Those were back in those naive and idealistic days when we thought that inventing computing and computer animation was going to help the world, not merely provide more opportunities to steal and support corrupt governments.
Tom Bombadil on
Wikipedia
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