I’m a big fan of anything that goes against the “System” or sticks it to “the Man”.  It’s hard to believe that I was once a Microsoft fanboy.

I vividly remember the chaotic anarchy of forces pushing the computer industry in so many different directions back in the late 70’s and 80’s. I owned a Commodore 64 when friends had Apple II, Texas Instruments, Atari, or Radio Shack TRS-80 computers. We didn’t share much software. We didn’t have much really, but a couple of cassette tapes or later, floppy disks, with tiny crude programs that entertained and kept us busy. What we did have though was enthusiasm and excitement for the seemingly limitless possibilities that all these nascent computers offered.

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