10 Nov
1997
10 Nov
'97
8:21 a.m.
On Sun, 9 Nov 1997, William Donzelli wrote:
Next time you want to turn your flamethrower on, please aim at the right
person. You quoted me for something I did not say.
William Donzelli
william(a)ans.net
Mark,
I take credit for the original posting. And you make some valid
arguments. What I wrote wasn't meant to be taken as an abridgement of my
total philosophy.
There's been a problem around here lately of people taking single
sentences from a message and blowing it out of proportion. I wish it
would stop.
Sam Alternate e-mail: dastar(a)siconic.com
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On Sat, 8 Nov 1997, William Donzelli wrote:
500 years from now, if what I am trying to
accomplish with the Vintage
Computer Festival succeeds, the machines which were truly significant from
a social context, meaning the ones which ran the banking system, the
airline system, government, etc. (in other words, the computers which were
the foundation of modern society), will be the ones which we remember, and
the Altair and others of its ilk will be merely novelties.
I'd reign in your desire to pidgeonhole computers into "novelties" vs
"socially significant" if I were you. Not only is EVERY piece of hardware