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ys? I took this as a sign I was becoming a digital guy. Around the same time, I read an essay in Wired magazine by Paul Saffo, who is a director of the Institute for the Future, a think tank in Menlo Park, which argued that the information highway is going to cause a flowering of personal expression not seen in our society
rning to Seattle, he bought an operating system called qdos, which was short for Quick and Dirty Operating System, from another software developer, Seattle Computer, for around seventy-five thousand dollars, renamed it ms- dos, and, in a three-month code-writing marathon, convened it to I.B.M.'s specifications.
ys? I took this as a sign I was becoming a digital guy. Around the same time, I read an essay in Wired magazine by Paul =Saffo, who is a director of the Institute for the Future, a think tank =in Menlo Park, which argued that the information highway is going to cause a flowering of personal expression not seen in our societ
rning to Seattle, he bought an operating system called qdos, which =was short for Quick and Dirty Operating System, from another software developer, Seattle Computer, for around seventy-five thousand dollars, =renamed it ms-dos, and, in a three-month code-writing marathon, converted it to I.B.M.'s specifications.
ys? I took this as a sign I was becoming a digital guy. Around the same time, I read an essay in Wired magazine by Paul =Saffo, who is a director of the Institute for the Future, a think tank =in Menlo Park, which argued that the information highway is going to cause a flowering of personal expression not seen in our societ
rning to Seattle, he bought an operating system called qdos, which =was short for Quick and Dirty Operating System, from another software developer, Seattle Computer, for around seventy-five thousand dollars, =renamed it ms-dos, and, in a three-month code-writing marathon, converted it to I.B.M.'s specifications.
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