13 Feb
1998
13 Feb
'98
6:47 a.m.
At 09:06 PM 2/12/98 -0600, you wrote:
At 08:17 PM 2/11/98 -0500, you wrote:
><People try, but the age of hacking is gone. Right now, there is just
><nothing exciting in the computing industry. Wait till holographic
>
The book is "A Door into Summer", 1957, included in "A Heinlein
Trio",
Doubleday. It's a good read!
Cheers
Charlie Fox
Speaking whihc, has anyone else ever read
Heinlein's book (whose name I've
forgotten) about the inventor whose partners steal everything and freeze
him for 20 years etc? One of the things he invents is an automated vacuum
cleaner. When Heinlein wrote the book, I'm sure that would have been very
expensive and very difficult to do. Now, however, it would seem like an
acheivable goal, especially since Heinlein does a lot of the specs for
you... So how come you can't buy one at Target? Anyone want to make
millions?
(That book, btw, is what made me want to be an EE (along with Steve Ciarcia
calling it "programming in solder"). Perhaps someday I'll finally get to
become one...)
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