At 09:06 PM 2/12/98 -0600, you wrote:
>At 08:17 PM 2/11/98 -0500, you wrote:
>><People try, but the age of hacking is gone. Right now, there is just
>><nothing exciting in the computing industry. Wait till holographic
>>
The book is "A Door into Summer", 1957, included in "A Heinlein Trio",
Doubleday. It's a good read!
Cheers
Charlie Fox
>Speaking whihc, has anyone else ever read Heinlein's book (whose name I've
>forgotten) about the inventor whose partners steal everything and freeze
>him for 20 years etc? One of the things he invents is an automated vacuum
>cleaner. When Heinlein wrote the book, I'm sure that would have been very
>expensive and very difficult to do. Now, however, it would seem like an
>acheivable goal, especially since Heinlein does a lot of the specs for
>you... So how come you can't buy one at Target? Anyone want to make
millions?
>
>(That book, btw, is what made me want to be an EE (along with Steve Ciarcia
>calling it "programming in solder"). Perhaps someday I'll finally get to
>become one...)
>
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Received on Fri Feb 13 1998 - 06:47:37 GMT