On  5 Feb 00 at 15:46, Samuel W. Heywood wrote:

>>IMHO, it is premature to worry about this problem at the present time.
>>For all we know, before the next 38 years would have passed us by, most all
>>current computers and programming languages and operating systems might have
>>become so obsolete as to be considered mere curiosities in museums of
>>technology.  The only people still actually using such technology would
>>consist only of a small group of old fools and patriarchs like us.  By the
>>time that day comes around, we might have become recognized only as
>>interesting subjects for interviews by the History Channel, and deserving of
>>an occasional passing mention on Time Lab 2000.

I don't know. Maybe we should start putting back some bottled water 
and canned foodstuffs. ;) In the meantime I am going to try and get 
one of my XT's to interface with an electric wheelchair. If we're 
going to hang on to these things we might as well find some use for 
them in our old age.

Regards,
Dale Mentzer

I wish the buck stopped here. I could use a few.


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