"When programming is outlawed, only outlaws will program"

From: Douglas H. Quebbeman <dquebbeman_at_acm.org>
Date: Wed Apr 3 14:32:39 2002

> On Wed, 3 Apr 2002, Doc wrote:
> > > You may as well put Fred in jail for Xenocopy, in fact ;)
> > They probably will, very soon. :(
>
> Did John Draper write "Easy Writer" WHILE he was in jail?

Hmmm... He stayed with my family during a 3-day stop
in September 1978... I gave him a 23-channel CB radio
to ease the trip out, and he gave me a copy of a Nektar
album (it wasn't "Remember the Future"). White and olive
drab VW Microbus.

>From what I've pieced together, EasyWriter must have
gotten started when he got back to the Left Coast.

He *might* have started formulating the ideas while in
Harrisburg (Harrisville?) State Prison.

We corresponded for a while before he went in;
I was an early user on WRBBS (Ward and Randy's BBS),
and if it wasn't that BBS, it might have been The Well
or one of the other Kalifornia BBSs...

I contacted Adam Osborne, and asked if he could use
his clout to help John out. His reply was that while he
didn't necessarily accept the Government's version
of what happened, that John was indeed in deep doodoo
and anyone that tried to help would get sh*t on their
shoes.

Now John's doing fine, tho work comes to him slowly,
and poor Adam Osborne is slowly dying in a village in
India, from Parkinson's Disease. BTW, I'm told that one
of Adam's expressed wishes is that he be left to go in
peace... Let's all thank him for his efforts and achievements,
and wish him a Happy Journey into the hereafter.

And please don't take that the wrong way. He was right-
my brief association with John led to my departure from
my position at the University where I'd hoped to get on
full-time... but I bear absolutely no grudge for that. The
system just plain sucks.

-dq


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