At 06:30 PM 8/31/98 -0400, you wrote:
>Max Eskin wrote:
>>
>> Who _is_ Jerry Pournelle?
>
>Columnist in Byte, "The User's Column", later renamed "Computing
...
>good science fiction writer and half of the best science fiction
Well, I'm not so crazy about him as a sf writer, but I did feel that his
columns in Byte did well in showing, in a way that a techie could
understand, what it was like for a user to be confronted with new
technology.
Nearly ran him down one time, though, on my skateboard, because I was busy
checking out his wife. 8^) Wasn't (isn't) she a expert in special ed or
something like that?
I remember him; he (99.99%) probably doesn't remember me. But love him or
hate him, he was a fascinating character. Not sure if he claimed it
outright or just alluded to it, but I always got the impression he had been
a spy or something in the 50's/60's. Any truth to that?
Speaking of characters, btw, anyone know what ever happened to Chris
Crawford? He wrote some really popular game for the Atari 8-bit computers,
then went on to develop a hit game for the Mac (something about running the
world or something? Sorry, I was never really into games.) He was another
neat person. A physicist turned programmer.
Lastly, anyone know whatever happened to the local San Francisco BBS
Newsbase and its denizens?
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Received on Thu Sep 03 1998 - 18:24:05 BST