i enjoyed the read and was quite surprised that there was a happy ending. i didn't think that would be possible. probably that speaks to my own personal experience more than anything.
not really relevant, but anyone know where mad ned is at these days? haven't seen any new posts of his in a while, and i enjoyed a bunch of them.
I'm still alive. But I've retired or at least taken an extended hiatus from my writing hobby, which in retrospect was probably a pandemic coping mechanism more than a lot of things lol.
I only came here because my in box is blowing up due to the traffic hacker news is driving to my site, and so then I see that this article is like #3 today. Not bad considering I don't really remember writing it!
I am Ned Utzig, a lifelong computer gamer, hacker, maker, and engineer. I grew up in a mainframe world of the 1970s, and in 1979 built my first home computer from a kit in the back of a magazine. I publish the Mad Ned Memo, a newsletter on computing history and trends:
http://madned.substack.com
not really relevant, but anyone know where mad ned is at these days? haven't seen any new posts of his in a while, and i enjoyed a bunch of them.
I only came here because my in box is blowing up due to the traffic hacker news is driving to my site, and so then I see that this article is like #3 today. Not bad considering I don't really remember writing it!