To: ronaldm <ronaldm@mars.ark.com>,
        Frances &/or Richard Clee <cleechez@tamcotec.com>
From: "gerry st.peter" <stpeterg@cadvision.com>
Subject: Re: U-TURN @ the Millenium

At 08:52 AM 5/29/98 -0700, ronaldm wrote:
>It's ok Rich. He (Dave Sands) knows and believes everything 
you said. He's a closet ADAMite, and one of the most dedicated 
supporters we've ever had.  He doesn't really believe that 
stuff about the ADAM "death spin"     Ron Mitchell


Relative to the discourse regarding the ADAM and it's "death
spin" and all the discussion between Ron, Dave Sands, and Rich 
Clee, all of the comment are loving opinions about what was for 
most of us an entry computer that still holds a special place 
in your lives.  For some it is irreplaceable...no matter just 
how the electronic world develops...and "develops" may be taken
as both positive and negative.   My comment is that my intro-
duction to the ADAM has fond and wonderful memories, and I 
appreciate the interest and awakening of my curiosity to
the computer world.  Just as when I was a kid and my father
showed me how to talk long distance with two can and a taut 
string.  My brother and a friend were just thrilled when we 
found we could attach another can and knotted second line to 
make it three way conference call. I think of that apparatus 
with great admiration, it was simple, always worked, never got a
wrong number, cheap, and it was uncomplicated.  Just who is 
going to invent an answering machine for this simple and 
efficient telecommunication device.  Imagine NO SINGLE DIGIT 
DIALING, just NO DIGIT DIALING. 

No static interference, no worries about satellite malfuntions...
the glories of this device are monumental...who could not promote
and venerate this device?..who needs a more modern improved model 
that cannot guarantee "NO PHONE TAPPING".  Who would want a 
CORDLESS PHONE. Where do you think the cord originated (STRING!!)
My device is absolutely TAP PROOF, now can NORTEL or NOKIA 
guarantee that.???  All the newer more technically advanced
devices are plagued with problems.  They have fancy things like
air bags, ALB's and Steel Guard Rails, and Call Waiting...TOO 
COMPLICATED for me.

I think the whole dialog can be expressed in the OLD story about
Grandma that would not go to visit her daughter who had sent her 
AIRLINE TICKETS to come to the ROSE BOWL PARADE and visit family 
in PASADENA..."NO NO you are not going to get me to fly in one 
of those new fangled fancy  contraptions...If God had wanted man 
to fly he would have given him wings, No, No, I am NOT GOING TO 
FLY to PASADENA to visit and see the ROSE BOWL PARADE in one of 
those MODERN JET PLANES...I am going to stay right on the ground,
like God created MAN, here in Havre, Montana and watch it on the 
Satellite TV.   

Meanwhile, I am going to play some golf, with my feather stuffed
leather balls, and my hickory shafted golf clubs. No sir! None of
those new fangled long distance balls for me...or thoses TITANIUM 
OVERSIZED LARGE SWEET SPOT clubs either.  And another thing that 
annoys me is those new gas powered mowers...used to like the old 
way, when they herded the sheep onto the course to clip is down 
to fairway length.  After playing 18 holes a fellow could sit in
 the clubhouse and have a double SCOTCH...the older the
better....and that goes for everything...JUST LIKE SINGLE MALT
SCOTCH...THE OLDER THE BETTER...Peat strained too...these new 
micronic filters just take all the good out of SCOTCH...

Loyalty is a historic virtue, and the historic is welded to the
ancient, relic, antique, and familiar...and there is no means of
redirecting those attachments.  Neither education, or technology,
or realistic appraisal will deter one's fervour.  It was a good 
try Dave, but it will not work.  Logic and candor are not adequate
tools to disloge FERVOUR... We LOYAL ADAMites will stick to our 
MUSKETS...and DDP's.  The ADAM is a DINOSAUR...and have you 
noticed how DINOSAURS are so popular these days...More popular 
and widely known than when they dominated the earth.  So that 
just proves that A FOSSIL is IN these days...right there with 
the STANLEY STEAMER, and the REO TRUCK.   If you have a working 
FOSSIL, you have a MARVEL...              Gerry


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