The Sphere-1 micro, the first personal computer, was created and built here in Utah. The creator, Mike Wise, died from complications of diabetes in December of 2004. However, one of his long-time business associates Arnold Grundvig of A-Systems is still around. <http://www.a-systems.net/company.htm> I talked with Arnold on the phone and he says that Mike regaled him with many stories over the years about the Sphere and so-on. I was interested in interviewing Mike for a short peice about that early piece of Utah computing history. Arnold has agreed to be interviewed for such a purpose instead. So if any of you have questions about the Sphere or that period of microcomputing history, please email them to me off-list and I will collect them together with my own questions, conduct an interview and post the transcript. If any of you know any "old timers" that are getting on in years, it might be a good idea to conduct a recorded interview (don't rely on notes! record it!) to capture some of the "oral history" that will be lost when they pass on. -- "The Direct3D Graphics Pipeline" -- DirectX 9 draft available for download <http://www.xmission.com/~legalize/book/download/index.html> Legalize Adulthood! <http://blogs.xmission.com/legalize/>