The Epithetology of John Bear

The Epithetology of John Bear

John Bear on August 27, 2004 posted about a book on Epithetology that discussed degree titles and abbreviations. I bought a copy at the time, but lost it in a house fire in 2015. Today, July 16, 2022, I received in the mail a reprinted copy of the book, and am now providing photos of the reprinted version for everyone to review.

Epithetology, published in 1948 by Commercial Press, by Curtis Bartholomew, LL.B., J.D., LL.D., B.S., M.S., Sc.D., Consulting Epithetologist.

The copy I just received has a different color for the cover and is a little larger than the 1948 edition, so it will not be too hard to tell the two apart.

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BILL Gates certainly didn't need a degree!

 

Back in 1981 when working for NCR I was told to attend a meeting. At the meeting, there was about 10 NCR employees and 2 IBM employees. The purpose of the meeting was IBM was going to be releasing a small computer system and they wanted it to become the industry standard for small computers. They called it IBM PC (Personal Computer). They wanted NCR to produce compatible hardware and run the same operating system that would be on the IBM PC called DOS. DOS was coming from this little company no one had ever heard of called Microsoft.

I remember thinking during the meeting, "I should check out this Microsoft company and maybe buy a couple thousand dollars worth of stock." Well after the meeting I didn't get assigned to the NCR-PC project and and never got around to checking out the Microsoft stock. Too bad, I probably could have retired 25 to 30 years ago or so if I had done that. ...

 

I worked at the Scripps Ranch facility at the time. I'll guess that your project was probably at Atlanta though? Maybe Dayton?

 

Hey, former NCR guys! Is the Denver NCR building really intended to suggest a cash register?

 

Oh, wait. I guess it never belonged to NCR after all. Urban legend.