About everything - masterpieces of digital graphomania: In the new world there is almost no place left for programmers-artists, eccentrics and anchorites who created only by inspiration...

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     MASTERPIECES OF ELECTRONIC GRAPHOMANIA       
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                Volume 142                   
                                          
         TRAVELS OF AMATEURS           
                                          
                Part 3                   
                                          
                                          
           "Meetings at Homebrew were the most 
 an important event in my life."   
                                          
                      Steven Wozniak.      
                                          
                                          
                                          
  Originally a gathering place for the first heke-
there was an informal club called "Homebrew". Pe-
revod  "home  wash"  can  make
only  people,  speaking "in this country"
...MOONHOON. It is moonshine, with all its associated
tions and accompanying sensations - ta-
kov is an adequate translation of this dashing name
niya.                                      
                                          
  Exactly here, in a small computer
club on the outskirts Los Angeles, discussed
and  s proudly demonstrated to each other
no one has ever owned their own homemade computers
famous Steve Wozniak (soon co-founder
APPLE ) and  others.  3a  1975-1977 they were
almost everything that is in-
The PC industry has been chewing  for 20 years now,
bringing to industrial shine and design
creative and technological excellence. Then
followed by  the legendary PC "APPLE I", own
wounded in a garage from stolen parts, non-
the conceivable rise of yesterday's students to the top
tires financial Olympus...all this is too much
well known.                          
                                          
  You can understand a lot by looking at the old photo
tography  capturing the group of creators
"Macintosh" (7 people).                
                                          
  Frayed jeans, beards: self-irony in
opinion about the solemnity of the event.
These people heard Jimi Hendrix and read
George Orwell, went through the "Flower Revolution", ma-
Rihuana religious  sects  andhippie
"communes".  Now  they were looking for internal
freedom in a plastic box filled with cubes
sap of baked clay.                 
                                          
  They  (in all seriousness) talked about
what will be given through PERSONAL computers
terov  everyone equal access to information,
which means - FREEDOM... that was a long time ago.     
                                          
 By the beginning of the 80s, things had gone so far
Well, serious people have taken up the PC. Before
this PC was carried out by some semi-sectarians,
for which "the passion far exceeded
desire for profit." In the name of the company IBM
"the letter  "B" ("business") preceded the "M"
("machine"). Entering the IBM arena meant co-
amateur performance  informal style
work. 3and it wasn’t garage novels that started the business -
tics,  and administrators in three-piece suits
(it was fashionable).                             
                                          
  The protracted (since August 1981) triumph of IBM
The PC was initially programmed: "Company
regularly receives large subsidies from the federal
federal   government, paying  for
account taxpayers half of the scientific
research. Among past and present directors
tors  this giant... former ministers
defense, justice,  trade... people from
IBM occupied  posts state.  secretary, mi-
nister of defence"... is it necessary?continue?    
                                          
                                          
  The state machine wisely absorbed
himself former "eternal student"B. Gates,
and  the APPLE management came to nomenclature
great professionals who have previously become famous
marketing of PepsiCola (but the founders left
Lee - "two Steves" - S.Jobbs and S.Wozniak).  
                                          
                                          
  Before all  end of the "computer boom"
became noticeable, of course, where it started -
Xia.  In April 1991  magazine  "Electronic
Design" reported:  "number of academic degrees,
annually assigned in the field of computing
technology,  once the most popular
lar discipline inuniversity campuses
sah reduced  by  27%  vs.
1986."                                 
                                          
                                          
                                          
                                          
                                          
  Now  typical   geek   in
most  institutions - this is  emig-
Rant-Vietnamese: most programs are pro-
harassed by anonymous  programmers in India
(only they happily  plowing  for "pathetic"
2000 dollars.  in  month, among them there are even
schoolchildren whose programs are amazingly pro-
professionals, especially considering the fact that
written  they are on pathetic teaching computers
rubles written off for scrap).                  
                                          
                                          
 MICROSOFT - giant empire, and Gates
(who was once called "Bob") - billion-
village True,  they no longer greet him
former  friends who are moonshiners, but this is the same for him
it's hardly necessary.                       
                                          
                                          
                                          
 UNDER 3AHABEC                
                                          
    "We couldn't look death in the eye: They blindfolded us and they brought us to her." 
                                          
                    A. and B. Strugatsky.    
                                          
  The police were looking for an anonymous person for about three years
the killer,  who sent  gift packages  with
explosives to great specialists in modern
new technologies. He was elusive. As in
any bad detective, caught a terrorist
in 1996... by accident.  He turned out to be  once
close friend of the murdered, once began
together  with  them, reached high degrees and
then... left the university and settled in
forest  hut, rejecting the once beloved
electricity and kilobytes.                
                                          
  So  end travels  to "kingdom
freedom."  Fashion for “computer by the fireplace”
long gone.                             
                                          
  Sales rates  PCs that began to fall since 1985
g., they are trying to raise it using the Internet
(worldwide  virtual flea market), where for
freedom of choice is given the opportunity to bro-
child (not  free)  among pornography,
open and hidden advertising  and appeals
all kinds of maniacs  (but access to
AMERICA ONLINE with truly valuable information
formation-limited).  Self PC  gradually
degenerates into NC (Network Computer) - when
lobe  like a game console, without screws
tera and floppy drives (and why are they in use?
bot on the NETWORK, when “any” program can be
download, use and forget). In ito-
ge, in  the hands of the user, just like 40 years
back,   again   turns out terminal, and
more is already  and is not necessary, because he himself de-
let nothing does not want and, most likely, does not
wants.                                  
                                          
                                          
                                          
  Hackers mostly  go into themselves, where,
Apparently,  will be lost. They will be replaced
new character -GEEK. This was once Robert
Jang  free has made humanity happy
archiver ARJ (and dedicated the program to his
her  family  and God. See - ARJ/?). GEEK's
exist for something else: they systematically
download with  help PC money, principle
without seeing anything around and, it seems, yes-
but  do not have the appropriate
gans of feelings.                             
                                          
                                          
  "In new world  almost no space left
programmers-artists, eccentrics and anacho-
retams who created only by inspiration -
nyu...  ownerscompanies could no longer afford
let luxury depend on whims pro-
"grammers   - creators" - writes Ruben Herr,
editor of "RS Magazine".                   
                                          
                                          
                                          
                                          
  Industrial approach back to
programming and again impersonal people
we write independent modules (for which they
don't care). Independence from "human-
th factor" provide object-orientation
roved languages and  environments  and "poor Charlie
Chaplin" again  makes "100 batches in a mixture
well", pressing the Taiwanese buttons. Balom
rules  "MINTEL" (Microsoft+Intel), absorb
teed  anything and everything. Monstrousmonopolism,
emerged  on   place  former  anarchism,
irritates  even some analysts, and
They  in a whisper  call MINTEL an "empire"
evil."                                     
                                          
                                          
                                          
                                          
                                          
                                          
                                          
                                          
  At the beginning of 1997, even
MACINTOSH,  having fired  a third  employees. Before
of course, will not allow the right to achieve complete collapse.
government, because  this is  that would mean absolutely
indecent  collapse   LEGENDS about society
limitless possibilities. This has already happened
when  English  government  covered
debts of a certain Sinclair after the failure of the
Delhi SPECTRUM-128...                      
                                          
                                          
                                          
  What is the solution?  Manage the company
invited  all that  Steve Jobs...
                                          
   There is no one else. Time to collect stones.   
                                          
                                          
                                          
"Many people today ask whether is there any left?  is
 I have faith  in  today  development
technologies,  that  was 20  years ago.
Of course,  remained.  But this is  faith not in
technology, but in people. Technology is nothing."
                                          
               From an interview with S. Jobs, 1996
                                          
                                          
    "I believe that some battles  
    should be carried out, even if they are in advance  
    lost."                           
                                          
               J.Soros.                  
                                          
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