Vintage era

If you are interested in the perspective of hackers, look for this book "Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution" for a good contrast. Paul -----Original Message----- From: Murray McCullough To: cctalk Sent: 2013-02-07 07:58:28 +0000 Subject: Vintage era I was reading ?The Fire in the Valley? ? the story of how the computer became a mass-consumer product - and the wrestling of control by experimenters & hobbyists of computing technology from elites - the computer cognoscenti. This beginning age(1970s-80s) saw the rise of the technocrat, the nerd, the geek who revolutionized technology but who today are the computing elite and control our technocratic society for good or ill. Vintage computers, the beginning era, has been subsumed by a technology so rapidly advancing it threatens to overwhelm us yet I still look back with fondness and I hope we can revive some of that era?s experimentation if only to validate a true hacker ethic. Murray--