24 Jan
1998
24 Jan
'98
9:16 a.m.
On Sat, 24 Jan 1998, Bill Richman wrote:
Personally, I _enjoy_ hearing a little bit about the
lives of people
who share some of my interests. The world (including the government,
I don't, especially not in a discussion group that I read to discuss
collecting and doing stuff with old computers.
your employer, your friends, etc.) tends to
pigeon-hole us enough
without our voluntarily doing it to ourselves. Yes, I'm on this list
because I enjoy classic computers, but I also enjoy the _people_ who
are into them, and what they do when they're not "hiding in the
basement". Granted, I jumped into a discussion when I first joined
Then go start a chat room on AOL to discuss this.
I hope it will be forgiven. I'm tired of
compartmentalizing myself to
meet other people's expectations.
Well, you came onto classiccmp to compartmentalize yourself into
discussing classic computers, hence the name of the list.
Sam Alternate e-mail: dastar(a)siconic.com
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