From: jl@glen--canyon.com   
      
   On Mon, 10 Nov 2025 17:56:32 -0500, bitrex  wrote:   
      
   >On 11/10/2025 2:37 PM, john larkin wrote:   
   >> On Mon, 10 Nov 2025 14:07:13 -0500, bitrex  wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> On 11/10/2025 11:34 AM, john larkin wrote:   
   >>>> The 1960's HP engineer skinny tie look is back!   
   >>>>   
   >>>> https://seekatesew.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/patternandtutorial-1.jpg   
   >>>>   
   >>>> If you never change, you can periodically be in fashion.   
   >>>>   
   >>>>   
   >>>> John Larkin   
   >>>> Highland Tech Glen Canyon Design Center   
   >>>> Lunatic Fringe Electronics   
   >>>   
   >>> California "stole" the tech industry from New England, and also made it   
   >>> a lot less fashionable..but I guess when the sun does nothing but shine   
   >>> there's no point to put on anything but a T-shirt, cargo shorts and   
   >>> sandals year round.   
   >   
   >Prelude to much of it moving all the way East..   
   >   
   >> It is curious that electronics moved west. HP, Tek, Varian, Apple, all   
   >> the silicon valley stuff.   
   >   
   >They were pretty late to the microcomputer party. Everyone over 65   
   >around here knows someone who worked for DEC or worked for them   
   >themselves, but the only place I ever recall seeing DEC machines back in   
   >the day was in hospitals.   
   >   
   >I never saw one in a classroom, though, just the good ol' Apple II,   
   >which as far as elementary school kids of the 80s were concerned defined   
   >what "a computer" was for that decade.   
   >   
   >In the early 90s we used DEC-branded three-ring binders for our Dungeons   
   >& Dragons papers, they were free for the asking.   
   >   
   >"Computer Drive" in Westboro never changed its name but it's mostly   
   >biotech firms around there now.   
   >   
   >> There was GR, Boonton, DEC, Data General, tons of stuff around Boston.   
   >> Even serious electronics in New Jersey and NYC.   
   >>   
   >> Maybe it's moving south now. Samsung and TSMC are building their new   
   >> fabs in Texas and Arizona. Maybe Wall Street will move to Florida.   
   >   
   >Third world healthcare, third world education system, and women are   
   >second-class citizens.   
      
   My doctor Sam refutes all three.   
      
   > Yeah maybe Wall Street will move there, if you're   
   >rich enough to have your own physician, private tutors for your kids,   
   >and buy any women you happen to need it sounds pretty good.   
      
   Buying women sounds repulsive to me. And unhealthy.   
      
   Do you often buy women? Does that sound "pretty good" ?   
      
   >   
   >My impression of Miami from the few times I've been there is it's a city   
   >for two types of people, the independently wealthy who don't have to   
   >work and people throwing all their money at pretending they don't have to.   
      
   That's what you'll see in a Holiday Inn maybe. That's because it's   
   full of people like you.   
      
      
      
      
   John Larkin   
   Highland Tech Glen Canyon Design Center   
   Lunatic Fringe Electronics   
      
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