“It would be nice to design a real briefcase - you open it up and it's your computer but it also stores your books.”
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Another hero was Tom Swift, in the books. What he stood for, the freedom, the scientific knowledge and being and engineer gave him the ability to invent solutions to problems. He's always been a hero to me. I buy old Tom Swift books now and read them to my own children.
My whole life had been designing computers I could never build.
Wherever smart people work, doors are unlocked.
At our computer club, we talked about it being a revolution. Computers were going to belong to everyone, and give us power, and free us from the people who owned computers and all that stuff.