Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!cfa!ward
From: ward@cfa.harvard.EDU (Steve Ward)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: R.I.P., BYTE:
Summary: The meaning of life (47)
Keywords: BYTE, subscription, letter, fed up
Message-ID: <1073@cfa.cfa.harvard.EDU>
Date: 8 Aug 88 21:33:54 GMT
References: <6646@well.UUCP> <559@proxftl.UUCP>
Organization: Harvard-Smithsonian Ctr. for Astrophysics
Lines: 59

In article <559@proxftl.UUCP>, aaron@proxftl.UUCP (Aaron Zimmerman) writes:
> ( '>' indicates quotations of Leo 'Bols Ewhac' Schwab)
> 
> 
> >       Having been involved in computers in one form or another for nearly
> > twelve years (I am now 24), I have found the industry exciting...

              I, too have been involved with computers for over 16 years
              (I am now 17) and I have been excited by it.  Of course,
              my mother rather wishes that girls would excite me,
              instead.

> 
> I'm in the middle of college now, and have been involved with computers since
> I was 9, with my first commercial program sold before I turned 13.

               I graduated from college some years ago.  My affair with
               computers, to mom's dismay, began in the crib, at age
               1 year.  My first commercial program was sold before I
               was potty-trained.  Unfortunately I have been
               consistently victimized by copycat programs that stole
               my "look and feel."  Example:  my program: Jumpsuit
               Jimmy   cheap knockoff: Leisure Suit Larry

> 
> > As imaginative people continue to enter the field, new and wonderful things
> > continue to happen all over the world.
> 
> I could ramble for megabytes on this subject - the changes I've witnessed have
> been breathtaking, and since you're some years my senior, these changes must
> seem all the more great to you.


                Yes, as I review the GREAT SPAN OF LIFE'S FULLNESS in
                retroconsideration of all that has happened before my
                very eyes, one cannot help but feel humble, and boggled.
                Yes, boggled.  I'm so boggled that I can't really say
                anything meaningful, even though I could ramble on
                for megabytes on this subject.


> Pity, ain't it.
> 
> > - Leo L. Schwab
> 
> - Aaron C. Zimmerman, bitching about life again.
> 
> 
                 - Bucolic Bill

                 (ed. note: Bucolic Bill is currently undergoing
                  psychiatric treatment for a computationally oriented
                  hardware envy hangup) (either that, or his stack
                  overflowed)

:-)               :-)               :-)               :-)


(I just posted this for Bucolic -- SMW)