I was 27, living in a mobile home in south Austin, when I received a phone call out of the blue. Erik Sandberg-Diment was starting a new computer magazine and had read my article on personal computers in the April issue of Byte magazine and wondered if I would write a science fiction story for… Continue reading Forget It! – ROM – August 1977
Author: hmelton
Standoff
I had one shoe on and one shoe off this morning when Mary Ann called frantically. The county work crew was mowing the roadside. She was panicked. This year, after several years of effort, our front yard had a beautiful solid patch of bluebonnets, unfortunately on the county’s side of the front fence. The bluebonnets… Continue reading Standoff
A Torrent of Trouble
I use computers. I’ve been tinkering with them for decades. Practically all of the new software and utilities interest me. I’m always looking out for new and better ways to do things on computers. Among these tools were a couple of BitTorrent clients. The hype is fantastic — an easy, distributed, efficient way to download… Continue reading A Torrent of Trouble