Activist Times Inc. 881020

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Activist Times Inc

 · 5 years ago

  

881020 

 
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        DICK CAVITT, GO HOME. 
  Give us back WNBC. WFAN??? What IS this? 
     We want our NBC. We want our NBC. 
  
    sssssssssssssssssssssssssssss 
  sssssssssssSHUT UP AND:ssssssssss 
 ssssssssssssssTYPE YOUR TEXTsssssss 
 sssssssTEXT-PHILE!!!sssssssssssssss 
 ssssssssssssssssssssANOTHERssssssss 
  sssEDITORIAL FROM the PRIMEssssss 
    sssssssssssssANARCHISTsssssss 
  
  I'm sick and foggin tired of catagorizations and compartmental- izations. 
  This is one of the few (3 or 4) negative things I've seen to come from 
computer use/abuse/consumption/digestion. 
  "Do you use a commodore or an atari?" was the common thought among 8bitters. 
It hasnt stopped. In fact, even between the 16/32's like the ST or the Amoeba, 
you see a lot of infighting. Is your modem Hayes or blah mode? 12 or 24 hundred 
nibbles per nanosecond? Is your screen 80 or 132 column? 
  Even among the elite, I have seen some stupid generalizations/judgments/ 
eyeball-chewing. Are you a hacker or a phreaker? Telenet or Tymnet? Unix or 
Zenix? 
  What this essay is trying to get across by the end of its writing is this: 
IT DOESNT FUGGIHM MATTER!!! 
  I've seen a bright individ on an apple 2+ get more resultz on my BBS than an 
Amy 2000er!!! I've seen an 8bitter do power-more than your basic mac 2 freak. 
  Cygnus has a good analagy for us all.  It aint the machine, says he. It's the 
operator. I wonder if he still feels that way now that he's moved from his cp/m 
on up to the amy 500??? 
  I bought my first computator for one thing only. WP!!! (word processing). 
It was a portable computer that I could bring to the ball park, jot down a 
few things, and then go home and print it out. 
  Then I got a desktop kind of thing that could rest at home, and be there when 
I wake up. Sort of like a wife. Hmmm. Somewhere before that, I already found 
how I could get the two together. Then along came a nice 3/12 modem for my 
desktop. Thanks to that educated 60 dollar decision, I can now grab a soda at 
that ballpark, and set my laptop on the payphone and send the stuff to my 
desktop. 
  Something I want you to work on. 
  STOP FIGHTING AMONGST YOURSELVES AND START MOVING TECHNOLOGY FORWARD instead 
of worrying whether someone is a commie/atarian/amoebite/applehead/Ibeamer.