DISQUS

Dear Obama Administration

I'm a 45yo married guy that, on first glance, doesn't have a dog in this race. But I do. I don't want my son growing up in a country that has legally defined a second class citizen. It is poison to the republic. It is also against the ideas you have espoused, so why are you putting political convenience before basic rights? Do you really want the label of "Uncle Tom" on this issue?

Please quit trying to find common ground on the basic issues of rights and justice. Quit trying to pick the right place and time for a fight on these issues. They are doing you and your administration a disservice and you are giving up your credibility on issues that you don't want to be on the wrong side of.

You can lead on all the issues. It won't be easy. But it is necessary.

I remember:
4 bit CPUs (8008)
10 blinking lingts and 2 switches (Altair)
Writing maching code because I couldn't afford an assembler
hollerith cards (used in my first college class - fortran)
CP/M (and the Z/80)
Booting the apple PC from assembler
P-code for the Apple 6502
$7K for the 10M corvis omnidisk
Backing the Tandy up to a cassette tape
The 110 baud acousic coupler
The 300, 600, 1200 4800 and 9600 bps modems8, 5, and 3.5 inch disks
The 5100 PC with switchable Basic and APL languages
Upgrading the 4.77Mhs 8080 to a Nec to get a 20% speed boost!
The terminator resister pack on the 130K floppy drive
Version 6 Unix and the advent of C
Logic lines on the PC BUS creating a short condition (bad doc!)
The hard drive reef off Boca Raton
When using GOTO was cool
The overbuilt 45lb compaq portable PC clone
100K network cards - then arcnet, ethernet, 10-Net, etc
Novell netware 4.1 - the first time (later it was Advanced netware 4.1)
Hacking BITNET and manually routing using SPOOL RSCS
Running FidoNet using Desqview (Spectrum BBS Columbia MO 1981-1992 RIP)

Most of all I remember programming in zeros because the 1 hadn't been invented yet.

If I had a Neuros Recorder 2 Plus, I could spend even more time reading Oh, Gizmo! Oh, Joy!

It was underdog I think...

Didn't thier used to be a superhero whose superpowers resided in a ring like this...