August 21, 2002

Birthday greetings

"The problem with the Bush administration is that its bully pulpit is all bully and no pulpit."

Once more into the breach, dear Congress: John Ashcroft and the Temple of Confidentiality, playing now at a Capitol near you.

And Happy Birthday, PC (that box you type on, not the phrase); it was 21 years ago this month that IBM introduced the machine which first carried that name. Remember those? I saw one of the original color monitors just 3 or 4 months ago at a repair shop; took me back. I spent 36 straight hours doing six months of accounting on one of these Compaq machines, borrowed from the LA office of our auditors, Ernst & Whinney (the forerunners of Ernst & Young...this was summer 1984, folks). Then I got on a plane to Europe for six weeks vacation.

Posted by Linkmeister at August 21, 2002 04:15 PM
Comments

my first 'puter was a PC jr (1984) ... $500 used, one 5 1/4 floppy, and the programs were on external disks ... it was a worthless piece of sh*t ... :)

Posted by: shelley at August 22, 2002 06:04 AM