Computer Pioneer.

Computer Pioneer.

This story happened in October of 1957 the month and the year the whole world was inspired by new developments in scenes and space explorations. The USSR lunched the first in a history of mankind manmade satellite - Sputnik. Sputnik was flying over the earth and with its beeps lets everybody know that humans on the planet earth were ready for something extraordinary, which was never done before.

October of 1957, Ohio State Psychiatric ward at Dayton Ohio. The TV which was recently purchased for money donated by the locale police pricing went missing, which caused the uproar among the local residents of the ward. For last month they become accustomed watching their favorite I love Lucy on CBS and everyone patently waited for a whole week if Lucy will let Ricky know about her mystery appearance on a his show. The show was starting in a half an hour but was no TV in a lounge. Tension was raising and any minute would reach a boiling point. In a second everyone forgot about TV, then ward director came in to the lounge and with his monotone voice asked if anybody took his typewriter – it went missing and Nurse Sophia spent whole day running around the building and looking for it. I am asking last time if anyone took my typewriter – repeated Dr. Nisboume. The room went quiet, you could even hear train passing by on Dayton Central located 10 miles away. OK no TV for a week – said Dr. Nisboume. Good at list they gonna get us new TV in a week – someone whispered from the crowd. What, is TV missing too – Dr. Nisboume was not happy. Yes – in a one voice answered residents of the facility.


On a next day TV was found as well as a typewriter, both of them were tightly attached to each other with a hefty amount of the Ducke tape warped around them. Local resident Tommy was showing his constriction and letting everybody know about his latest invention which would leave Russians in a dust with their stupid Sputnik. Tommy was so exited that he even did not noticed angry attitude toward him from the crowd gathering around. You know, I have something great – said Tommy. It is a typewriter with a TV attached to it , you will push the letters on a machine and they should appear on the screen – continued Tommy. The only thing I don’t know how to link both of them together to do that , the tape was best solution for prototype for right now. The other thing I would like to have Icons on a screen, I am not religious, but having whole bunch of them on a screen would be pretty. So far it was reasonable enough for a local psychos as well as doctor Nisbaume. They even were ready forgive Tommy for his misbehaving. But what, Tommy said next did not play well even in Psychiatric ward. I want mice to open and close windows – happily said Tommy.

Tommy was transferred to different facility with no windows. All window frames at current facility were taped, and the mice exterminators were invited to ward for complete check of the building.


The Tommy’s idea sounded crazy 50 years ago,
But is it crazy now?

Russian-Jewish Chicagoan.

I've been a resident of Chicago metro area for last 20 years ( Chicago, Des Plaines, Buffalo Grove, Arlington Heights). Being born in Russia from and having Jewish upbringing make me Russian-Jewish Chicagoan. This is why, this article , naturally , cough my eye.

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Article by Katarzyna Zechenter from Encyclopedia "Chicago"


“Russian” immigrants include two different groups: ethnic Russians and Russian Jews. Historically, however, the term “Russian” was inconsistently used by U.S. immigration authorities to include such diverse groups as Belarusians, Ukrainians, Poles, non-Russian Jews, and even Germans. Historians have therefore had difficulty determining precisely how many Russian immigrants have made Chicago home over the course of the city's history. While a majority of ethnic Russians and Russian Jews settled on the East Coast, Chicago became the largest center of Russian Jews and ethnic Russians in the Midwest.
Between 1861 and 1880, a small number of Russian Jews immigrated to Chicago's South Side, where they were left relatively unharmed by the Great Fire of 1871 but then badly hit by the fire of 1874. Russian Jews began arriving in Chicago in larger numbers during the 1880s to escape the persecution that had recently begun intensifying at home. By 1930, they constituted 80 percent of Chicago's Jewish population.
The Russian Jews who arrived in Chicago between 1881 and 1920 created a substitute for the culture of the shtetl in the densely populated area around Maxwell Street, where they created a thriving outdoor market. These immigrants worked largely in the clothing industry; others became butchers, small merchants, or street peddlers. After 1910, the immigrants who had given Maxwell Street its unique character began migrating toward Ashland, North Lawndale, Lake View, and Albany Park. By 1930, the population of Russian Jews in the Maxwell Street area had declined markedly, and after 1945 many began moving even further from the city's center, to the suburbs and to West Rogers Park, which remained the largest Jewish community in Chicago through the 1990s. Between 1969 and 1990, 23,000 Russian Jews and an estimated 500 ethnic Russian immigrants settled along Devon Avenue in West Rogers Park, as well as in Albany Park, Glenview, Northbrook, and Mount Prospect.
Ethnic Russians immigrating to Chicago in the early twentieth century settled most often in West Town, eventually earning the area around West Division, Wood, and Leavitt Streets the nickname “Little Russia.”
The Russian Orthodox community organized around such institutions as Holy Trinity Orthodox Cathedral on North Leavitt, completed in 1903 after a $4,000 donation from the tsar. Between 1920 and 1924, many of those forced to flee in the aftermath of the 1917 Russian Revolution settled in Chicago. At the same time, a number of those who supported the new Soviet system returned to Russia to join the revolution. Still, many “reds” and “whites” continued to live side by side in Chicago. The “whites” gathered in Holy Trinity Cathedral while the “reds” met on North Western Avenue for mass, or in the Russian Workers Co-Operative Restaurant on West Division.
Throughout the 1920s, many ethnic Russians and Russian Jews worked on Chicago's West Side for McCormick Reaper (International Harvester), Western Electric, or Sears, Roebuck & Co. With large employers laying off workers in the early years of the Great Depression, the Russian-American Citizen's Club was organized in 1930 to lend a hand and voice to a growing number of unemployed workers. The Russian Independent Mutual Aid Society, a working-class fraternal society founded in 1914, incorporated in 1931 to provide benefits in cases of injury or death and to lend small sums of money to those hit hardest by an unforgiving economy.
Both ethnic Russians and Russian Jews have worked to preserve their own cultures while simultaneously adapting to life in the United States. The Russian Literary Society was founded in 1890. The short-lived Russian People's University (1918–1920) as well as various cultural festivals such as “Znanie” were created to preserve traditional Russian folk songs, literature, and dances. And though only a handful survived more than a few years, at least 19 newspapers and 11 Russian magazines were published in Chicago after 1891. In 1973 the Friends of Refugees of Eastern Europe (FREE) began helping to ensure that local knowledge of Jewish heritage be remembered and shared. Other Jews from the former Soviet Union have maintained more of a Russian identity than a Jewish one, continuing to speak Russian and, together with ethnic Russians, Ukrainians, and Belarusians, supporting the publication of more than 10 magazines in Russian, including the biweekly Zemliaki (since 1996), the weekly Obzor (since 1997), and the daily Svet (since 1992). They have also organized language-specific libraries, poetry readings, and choirs.

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