The "FIRST PC" and personal timelines (Was: And what were the80s - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

23 Apr 1999

See embedded comments below, plz.

Dick

-----Original Message-----
From: Fred Cisin (XenoSoft) &lt;cisin(a)xenosoft.com&gt;
To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
&lt;classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu&gt;
Date: Friday, April 23, 1999 12:22 PM
Subject: Re: The "FIRST PC" and personal timelines (Was: And what were
the80s

...
 Now, now.

Without a lot of loose nuts, silicon valley and the "personal computer
revolution" might not have come off. 

That's actually true, I believe, although the now-past concentration of
"intelligencia" in CA was the product of wise investment in educational
institutions on California's part.

With the economic successes bred by the liberal policies toward education
and human services, California became a magnet for not only free-thinkers,
but free-loaders as well.  Now they're well into a backlash, e.g. Prop 13,
Prop 187, etc. which seem to have passed.  The liberal forces are still
strong though.

They talked about Jerry Brown as "Governor Moonbeam" but he was just a
reflection of what the people had indicated a few years earlier that they
wanted.

A truly constructive dialog has to begin with the diametrically opposed
extremes, doesn't it?

...
 "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world;
the unreasonable one persists in trying to
adapt the world to himself.
Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man."
 -  George bernard Shaw

Just wait.  After the big one, and everything east of the San Andreas
sinks into the Atlantic, . . .