[geeks] Re: 48v

Joshua D. Boyd geeks at sunhelp.org
Mon Apr 23 18:08:45 CDT 2001


I think his status now mostly stems from historical feats rather than any
currently usefull skills.  I mean, he was way ahead of his time with
personal computing (realizing that even for $20k per machine it would pay
for itself quickly).

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Joshua Boyd

On Mon, 23 Apr 2001, David Murphy wrote:

> Quoting <B21DC65B35E6D211BDC1009027626F7D0220FB89 at icti_mail.icti-usa.com>
> by Ken Hansen <Ken.Hansen at ICTI-USA.com>:
> 
> > Jerry Pournelle is a *major* tech-geek. I admire his work and marvel
> > at his collection of "toys." He verges on "uber geek" status, IMHO -
> > a tilte that would certainly encompass all matters telephonic!
> 
> >From reading Byte articles, he seemed to have a lot of basic problems
> with windows for someone rated as an 'ubergeek', but maybe that's just
> me 8)
> 
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