13 Feb
2007
13 Feb
'07
9:46 p.m.
At 10:25 AM 2/13/2007, you wrote:
I had a second thought after posting that it would have been better to
simply make it a suggested reading book. : ) Computers are women,
right? Not metal boxes. So I suggest this whole list is off topic! ;
) There are quite a lot of descriptions of the sorters and other punch
card machines in the book. What made me think about it was the IBM
computer book from 1941 that has been talked about lately.
OK, back to making Altair kits...
By the way, someone backed out so I have one kit to sell. Its going on
e-bay soon... Last one I'll have for a about two months.
Grant
>> What
this has taught me that corporate monied interests are amoral,
looking only to
increase profit. Similarly, governments largely
exist to serve their own interests and, for the most part, not the interests
of the governed.
Typical that at least one cctalker would reply with such idiocy. Grant
asked for opinions about the book itself. There's absolutely no reason to
go OT and include a moronic political opinion too.
Why can't people understand that "on-topic and off-topic posts" in the list
header does mean we've got carte blanche to say any assinine thing?