An ever changing population of stray cats that call the 200 year old adobe house they live in home Well not the peacocks They live outside Except for one or two But that's another story Author’s Note I actually wrote this book in 1982 – 1983 while working at the Idaho National Engineering Laboratories Well not while actually at work of course I wrote it in the evenings at home in Pocatello The book began life on what was at the time a state of the art NorthStar Horizon CPM machine No worries though I had it maxed out with 64 KB of memory Yes that’s old technology I still remember how much I paid for that machine in 1980 5000 Back then 5000 was real money I finally finished the book after pounding away on it for a year and a half’s worth of evenings and weekends and then proceeded to accrue a respectable number of rejection slips from a variety of publishing houses most of which are no longer around One thing followed another and I ended up shelving the book for about 30 years while still taking care to move it from machine to machine as my computing environment changed over the years As far as I can recall the book migrated from the NorthStar to a DEC Rainbow DEC Rainbow Whose idea was that Then to a Symbolics 3.
second kindle cousins book Second Cousins eBookAn ever changing population of stray cats that call the 200 year old adobe house they live in home Well not the peacocks They live outside Except for one or two But that's another story Author’s Note I actually wrote this book in 1982 – 1983 while working at the Idaho National Engineering Laboratories Well not while actually at work of course I wrote it in the evenings at home in Pocatello The book began life on what was at the time a state of the art NorthStar Horizon CPM machine No worries though I had it maxed out with 64 KB of memory Yes that’s old technology I still remember how much I paid for that machine in 1980 5000 Back then 5000 was real money I finally finished the book after pounding away on it for a year and a half’s worth of evenings and weekends and then proceeded to accrue a respectable number of rejection slips from a variety of publishing houses most of which are no longer around One thing followed another and I ended up shelving the book for about 30 years while still taking care to move it from machine to machine as my computing environment changed over the years As far as I can recall the book migrated from the NorthStar to a DEC Rainbow DEC Rainbow Whose idea was that Then to a Symbolics 3.