4 Dec
2003
4 Dec
'03
9:54 a.m.
On Thu, 2003-12-04 at 14:17, Fred Cisin wrote:
It also fails to mention some of the "culture
clash" issues -
IBM was "shocked" at the working environment at DR, and there
were unsubstantiated reports that when the IBM people arrived
(looking a bit out of place for that community, some DR people
thought that it was a drug raid.
I had the distinct pleasure of personally picking up our (CSSN, Inc,
Boston Mass) CP/M-80 v2.2 OEM diskettes from the Pacific Grove house. It
was definitely old hippy decor, very nice. Bunch of hacker weirdos
making good stuff. Saw PL/M demoed playing chess, met Gary merely in
passing through (mumble).
Total culture clash is not hard to imagine. Money is very conservative
(read: reactionary) and makes little room for uniqueness. The whole
microcomputer world died for me with the coming of the PC, culture-wise,
and is why i left it behind.