Ladies, the guys didn't get their jet packs, but you'all got your electronic catalogs!

Wow. And no keyboards!

OK, gotta go. You wouldn't believe how many messages I have to deal with on my electronics correspondence machine thingie.

What really happened ...

Huh. Bill gates was a paranoid ass even in those days!

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I guess in 1966 no one considered the possibility of packet-switched networks.

Billg's "Open Letter to Hobbyists" pretty much summed up the future of M$'s business model - I bet Richard Stallman featured in his nightmares.