edc@ctsj.Convergent.COM (Ed Chaban) (12/02/88)
Dear Steve, Congratulations on producing the computer of my dreams. You have successfully integrated a number of technologies that have fascinated me for a number of years. Please allow me to tell you a little about myself. My dad is a machinist by trade and has been employed by Bell Labs for over 25 years. He is no genius but I credit him with introducing me to UNIX by taking Mike Hawley and I to Boy Scout explorer post meetings at Murray Hill. You, of course, know Mike as one of the people who helped make the NeXT possible. Unfortunately, I am not nearly as brilliant as someone like Mike. Like you, I dropped out of school. We sons of machinists are intensely PRACTICAL persons who like to make things happen in the real world. All of that theoretical achademic crap they threw at me in college was too much once I hit grad school. Maybe you felt the same way. Anyway, what upsets me most is the fact that I can't get a NeXT. Steve, I don't want to go to school anymore. In fact, I'm not sure that Stanford or MIT would even accept me (Stanford turned me down last year). None of the smaller non-private institutions seem to be involved with the NeXT. Your machine is purely for Ivy-Leaguers. I'm not jealous of Mike and his Yale undergrad work or his new life at the Media Lab, but jeez, can't I have a NeXT? Please? I just can't bring myself to return to the monastic world of Achademia. Best wishes to you and your new company. Sincerely, Ed Chaban
jtn@potomac.ads.com (John T. Nelson) (12/04/88)
oh that was wonderful! -- John T. Nelson UUCP: sun!sundc!potomac!jtn Advanced Decision Systems Internet: jtn@potomac.ads.com 1500 Wilson Blvd #512; Arlington, VA 22209-2401 (703) 243-1611 "The only thing more useless than a Faberge' egg is a coffee table picture book about Faberge' eggs"