Msg: 6715 *Conference*
07-30-96 19:30:38
From: RICHARD HANSON
To : RON WIESEN
Subj: REPLY TO MSG #6712 (ORPHAN COMPUTERS)
What? The word "thesaurus" is not listed in your ... thesaurus?! That's unamerican. I used my trusty, 3" thick, "The Randon House Dictionary of the English Language, College Edition." Copyright 1968. Gee... I must have picked this thing up at the age of 18, during my first year at Diablo Valley College. Heavy! Groovy! The preface starts out... "In the decades receintly past, especially since World War II, the educational standards of the world have been extended to embrace more people than ever before." It concludes with... "It is their [the editors] sincere hope that the efforts to make it the best dictionary available will be repaid by its greater usefulness to the greater number of people." Signed... "Laurence Urdang, Editor in Chief" So here we are in 1996, 28 years later, and their [the editors] efforts find their way into cyberspace; a word not listed within its pages. There is a listing, however, for "cybernetics." Back then, there were no thoughts about orphan computers. :) Wow... what a trip. Excuse me... I'm going to get a beer and ponder this amazement in time and spirit.