On Apr 24, 2009, at 1:16 PM, Vernon Wright wrote:
Am I the only classic computer enthusiast left in San
Diego?
Since Will Rose decamped for England, and Don Maslin died, and Bill
Bailey died last year, it seems that there is no one here who
shares my/our interests. It's all Windoze (oh, I wish OS/2 had made
it!) and Linux. No aspersion cast on either (well, even though I
write for both, you get my feeling from my spelling of the former)
- but there is no one here who has the slightest interest in
anything before y2k! Local groups consider "technical" playing with
the latest piece of hardware from Fry's.
Just wondering if there are any lurkers here who are in a similar
situation, and would like to resurrect my old Dina-SIG in the form
of talking, playing with, experimenting with classic computers.
Maybe developing new ideas (Bill Bailey and I, before he died, were
working on concepts for biological computers)....
If so, drop me a line. Don't mean to sound needy - but it's lonely
down here. San Diego was a major epicenter of the development of
the S-100 CP/M computer. We're all getting older but it can't be
that of 3 million people I'm the only one left?!?
I'm having the same problem here in southwest Florida. I'm
reasonably certain that the only PDP-11s down here are sitting a few
feet from me. It's a love/hate thing between Florida and I.
-Dave
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Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL