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Wed Apr 10 02:58:00 2002

Old, well-known, but still poignant for me. Partly because we found a copy in a box in the garage as we all set out to move to the next house. Partly because – I think – the Kurtz referred to is the father of BASIC, and I still have fond memories of editing BASIC magazine until I went mad.

And partly because: well, old. Old.

The Love Song of J. Random Hacker

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No! I am not Bill Gates, nor would I want to be; I’d rather parse the fish than own the knife; (Imagine! Having moby bux but chained to ninety million lusers, what a life…) Am a flamer, goateed, pallid, overweight, Willing to pull two shifts, then (hell) a third, To save a session from a deadlocked state; At times, (to put it mildly) unrestrained– Almost, at times, a nerd.

I grow old…I grow old… dBase II and Wordstar are no longer sold.

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