Apology, Info, Etc...

Amen! Sam has slammed me in the past for standing up for "bleeding hearts" like you, and I think it's time we "bleeding hearts" got together and kicked some a**! We like machines, but we don't have to _act_ like them. We can talk (mostly) about classic computing while still acknowledging and respecting each other's unique experiences and feelings. All this time I've seen Sam's name, and kept thinking that somehow this all made sense. It's finally come to me; it was just a spelling error! Go to sea, Sam - GO TO SEA! (with apologies to Herman Melville) Call me Ishmael. Some years ago--never mind how long precisely --having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on shore, I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery part of the world. It is a way I have of driving off the spleen, and regulating the circulation. Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth; whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul; whenever I find myself involuntarily pausing before coffin warehouses, and bringing up the rear of every funeral I meet; and especially whenever my hypos get such an upper hand of me, that it requires a strong moral principle to prevent me from deliberately stepping into the street, and methodically knocking people's hats off--then, I account it high time to get to sea as soon as I can. On Wed, 18 Mar 1998 18:18:46 -0600 (CST), Wirehead Prime &lt;wirehead(a)retrocomputing.com&gt; wrote: <snip> -Bill Richman bill_r(a)inetnebr.com http://incolor.inetnebr.com/bill_r (Home of the COSMAC Elf Simulator!)