On Sat, 24 Jan 1998, Bill Richman wrote:
> Personally, I _enjoy_ hearing a little bit about the lives of people
> who share some of my interests. The world (including the government,
I don't, especially not in a discussion group that I read to discuss
collecting and doing stuff with old computers.
> your employer, your friends, etc.) tends to pigeon-hole us enough
> without our voluntarily doing it to ourselves. Yes, I'm on this list
> because I enjoy classic computers, but I also enjoy the _people_ who
> are into them, and what they do when they're not "hiding in the
> basement". Granted, I jumped into a discussion when I first joined
Then go start a chat room on AOL to discuss this.
> I hope it will be forgiven. I'm tired of compartmentalizing myself to
> meet other people's expectations.
Well, you came onto classiccmp to compartmentalize yourself into
discussing classic computers, hence the name of the list.
Sam Alternate e-mail: dastar_at_siconic.com
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