[extropy-chat] FWD (SK) Re: geek [Asperger's Syndrome?]

[Terry W. Colvin]

on 12/3/04 09:52 pm, Jack Kolb at wrote:

Yeah: well, how many of you owned an IBM Displaywriter (with 8 inch 
diskettes)?  I did  (minus the printer that was attached to it: I used the
one at school).  Wrote my first book on it.  Paying for it nearly put me in 
a debtor's prison.  So there {grin}.

Jack Kolb
Dept. of English, UCLA
 
Was that in the late '70s?  The Army unit I was in while waiting for my
resignation to process had one of those that they used to fill out OERs
and such.  They got about 12 pages on one 8-inch disk.

Couldn't afford one, myself.  Rumor mill had it that they cost about 12
grand.

Ed Tyler

With the printer, it would have been about that amount, Ed.  If I remember, I
(ultimately) paid about about 7 grand.  I guess, looking back, I don't regret
it: I got a lot of use out of it.

Actually the first computer I ever used was an old DEC-10; we had an outlet in
our department.  It was left over from some social science research project. 

Jack Kolb
Dept. of English, UCLA

In response to 'geeks' and the definition, in part, given by their interests and
behaviors, I wonder how many 'geeks' have Asperger's Syndrome?


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