Msg: 1586 *Conference*

02-16-92 09:17:06

From: RICHARD HANSON

To : CROSBY! CROSBY!

Subj: REPLY TO MSG #1584 (TEMPTATION)

What?  You've been using home computers since 1974??  Hmmm... then you must ave
owned an IMSI or a Sol... yes?  I helped build some EMSI and MIT's machines
back there, at Home Brew.  Sure wish I still had them around here.  A buddy of
mine in Walnut Creek still has a Sol, complete with 8" drives and Electric
Pencil by Sayers.  As I recall, he and I built a Heath/Zenith computer kit way
beck then.  Those were fun times.  Do you call the Byte stores?  I always
thought that was a good name for a computer store.  Now we have big-buz things
like CompUSA, and Uncle Ralph's :)  We used to have good, helpful, fun,
exciting, computer magazines back then, too; and lots of "how-to" books.  Those
are gone as well (sigh!)  The funny thing is that 15+ years later the demand
for beginning, fun, exciting, useful information is in greater demand then ever
before and it just ain't out there.  Sounds like an opportunity to me (wink,
wink)  -Rick-