Vince Welnick, a keyboardist who possessed a fluid and precise style and played with the Tubes, Todd Rundgren and the Grateful Dead, died Friday in Sonoma County at the age of 55.
The cause appears to be suicide, Sonoma County sheriff’s department said.
Mr. Welnick, whom friends called a gentle and sensitive man, was classically trained […]

Jimi Hendrix had at least two children.
One is a girl born around 1966. Her name is Tamika Laurence James. I
believe her mother is from Minnesota and Jimi met her in New York. I am a bit fuzzy on the daughter, but I believe this is correct. (The following is taken from court […]

Ruby on Rails : Impressive, will surely shake up web development.
After using Ruby and Rails, believe me when I tell you, it has compelling reasons to be considered for your next web application and the capabilities to shake up web development as a whole.
While .NET and Java/J2EE have the biggest mind share among development […]

by Aaron Rustad
Aaron Rustad has been working with Java technology since 1998 and has been an architect and developer of J2EE applications for several vertical markets, including oil and gas, agriculture, and education. You can contact Aaron at arustad@gmail.com.
Ruby on Rails is a relatively new Web application framework built on the Ruby language. It […]

By Jack Bender
The Darien News-ReviewDarien News-Review
Thursday, April 9, 1998
Copyright © 1998 The Hour Newspapers
Reprinted by Permission
A few years ago, not many people were aware of Rowayton’s association with the creation of the business computer.
Some Rowayton old timers remembered that Jim Rand’s company had bought the big Farrell mansion after the war and he’d brought in […]

These notes are to document what happened at 33 Highland Avenue, the current location of Rowayton’s Community Center and Library. The notes are a “work-in-progress” and we welcome comment.
Contact: Erik Rambusch, rambusch@sprynet.com
From 1943 until 1964 “the Barn” [actually a group of buildings] was used as a site for research by the Remington Rand Corporation.
In […]

By BILL RYAN
The New York Times
Sunday, March 29, 1998Copyright © 1998 The New York Times Co.
Reprinted by Permission
In 1948, 20-year-old William B. Werming of Stamford, fresh out of a two-year technical college in New York City, was looking for a job. An acquaintance suggested he try Remington Rand.
“I had never even heard of […]

By W. B. Wenning
James Rand, Chairman and President of Remington Rand, was approached by Loring P. Crosman in 1943 with a plan to build an electronic computer. Remington Rand was known in the business world for its 90-column punch card Tabulating line of equipment.
Crosman’s credentials were rather significant: Twenty years with Monroe Calculating Company, […]

By FRANCIS X. FAY

Engineers responsible for developing three of the most economically efficient business computers of their time reminisced for six hours recently at the Rowayton Community Center where it all began.
Eight men, who labored on the Remington Rand 409 created in 1951, the first computer designed specifically for business applications, the Univac 60/120 […]