Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!samsung!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!swbatl!synoptics!bionet!agate!darkstar!ucscb.UCSC.EDU!unknown From: unknown@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (The Unknown User) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2 Subject: Re: what is Alan Kay up to these days? Message-ID: <8301@darkstar.ucsc.edu> Date: 30 Oct 90 09:00:46 GMT References: <1990Oct26.225811.23772@ns.network.com> Sender: usenet@darkstar.ucsc.edu Organization: University of California, Santa Cruz; Open Access Computing Lines: 35 In article robert-s@cs.aukuni.ac.nz (Robert Sheehan ) writes: >In July I saw Alan Kay at a conference in Sydney, where he quickly stopped >being a hero of mine. Good (that he quickly stopped being a hero of yours). By the way, isn't he the dude who came up with the DynaBook concept? >He showed the video of the two year old girl happily playing with a Macintosh >and said that when he found out she was interested in computers he arranged for >her to get an Apple II(e I presume). Quote: "She rejected the Apple II". Much >laughter. This was at the World Conference on Computers in Education with over >2000 educators present. I wish you had "been a jerk" and yelled "BOOOOOOOH" as loudly as you could after everyone stopped laughing. And/or talked to him afterwards if he kept talking to people who stayed after and told him about your qualms with his "joke". {I wouldn't have the guts to "boo" at a conference.. I didn't have the guts to spaz at this damn lady at the_worst_computer_store_ _in_existance, Computer Plus, in Sunnyvale.. Unfortunately it was started by Woz's brother too! Well, sometime in the last year or so I went in to get a fresh System Disk because something happened to mine.. Well, the stupid lady couldn't ^openapplereset because she didn't realize you have to hold the ^openapple down for a little longer after you let go of reset.. So she said something like "stupid computer" in a regular tone of voice. AND I AM/WAS A POTENTIAL CUSTOMER OF HERS! I wish I had said I'm never buying anything here, because of what you just said} >OK (no pun intended), I suppose I was being a bit touchy but I expected a >little more loyalty from an Apple Fellow. He also made a nasty joke later >about MS-DOS. Well, that's acceptable... {1/2 j/k} -- /Apple II(GS) Forever! unknown@ucscb.ucsc.edu MAIL ME FOR INFO ABOUT CHEAP CDs\ \"If cartoons were meant for adults, they'd be on in prime time."-Lisa Simpson/