Some day you will have to explain this to your grandchildren.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/r...

Didn't know he was running.

There was a time when Boeing was run by engineers. Now it's run by lobbyists.

I actually started construction of a 6800 system, but as I've said many times, "If you live near Seattle, you've got to know Microsoft."

I remember these times and was acquainted with some of those early Seattle area hackers-- hackers before the word was corrupted. I've suffered a stroke a while back and it hinders my recollection of names, but I have a lot of memories. I had a friend, Rodger Modeen, a Boeing engineer who took an interest in 'phone freaking' and was an acquaintance of the notorious 'Captain Crunch', the guy that found he could manipulate the phone system using the whistle from the cereal box to generate the 2600 cps tones. He built tone generators and used one to court a gal from some South American country he eventually brought to the States and married. I had Jumped on the Altair Computer featured on the January 1975 cover of Popular Electronics and purchased an S100-based CPU. I had a Tarbell Disc controller and a dual 8" floppy drive. I had assembled the controller and memory boards, but something was wrong. Rodger was able to diagnose it, and I was off and running using CPM. One of Rodger's claims to fame was releasing a circuit for a telephone modem with the disclaimer "This is not meant to defame, defraud or defrock the Bell Telephone System, So Be it." Another acquaintance was an engineer who worked at the base of the KOMO TV tower on Queen Anne Hill. He was heavy into the fledgling amateur computer scene. Another hotbed of activity was some folks who worked at a South Seattle fire station. These, in fact, were the ones who took the circulating pirated source code and created the package that became the Seattle Computer product that Bill Gates purchased for $50,000, resold to IBM, and then seized himself as MSDOS.

https://phys.org/news/2023-08-...

I think it is a cultural thing. They took education seriously when I was there in 1968.

While serving in Vietnam during the summer of 1968, I visited a cinder-block, dirt-floored home in a rural village. There was a 4th-grade girl working on her homework. I looked to see what she was studying. It was set theory, the same as my brother, a high school junior was studying back home in the US.

I remember the Telecrapper2000 https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Of course, whatever course Biden had followed, the right would have found fault.

It's a clear threat to the FoxNews business model.

Go Zags.

Maybe not. It might be decided by a jury of humans who would say to themselves "If the law supposes that, then the law is a ass." Charles. Dickens

I recently had my hot water heater replaced and the plumbers screwed up and flooded my great-room. Days later I found they had flooded bins of original family photos and they were past worth saving. Fortunately, they were all photos for which I had high-quality, high-resolution digital scans. I breathed a sigh and shredded the damaged originals. I will be backing up all my digital family photo images onto USB keys and sending them out to multiple family members. I've seen USB keys go through both wash and dry cycles and come through error-free.