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- D I S K O V E R Y
- by Dave Moorman
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- Commodorea, O Commodorea!
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- Once upon a time, the Commodore 64
- was a pioneering computer. The
- frontier was opened up by Apple II,
- TRS-80, and the PET. But this vast
- landscape was settled by the C-64
- Homesteaders. These hardy immigrants
- put down roots, built data structures,
- church finance systems, printing and
- news services, general stores of
- software and hardware, and turned a
- rugged free-for-all into a place where
- families could live.
-
- Others would come and turn our new
- territory into a metropolis, where
- strangers could remain strangers and
- great inequities and disease would
- spread. But we carved out a small
- community -- a little rural town where
- folks are just folks who do their best
- to be friendly and work together.
-
- Commodorea.
-
- For others, computers are just
- tools or toys. Free Cell and Word and
- Works. But in Commodorea, the computer
- is a mortar that holds together
- diverse people with diverse interests.
-
- One of the many leaders of
- Commodorea is K. Dale Sidebottom, who
- is a power-user, a publisher, and the
- President of LUCKI. When you read his
- philosophical view of our computer and
- community, you will see a heart
- dedicated to our modest realm. That is
- why I nominated him as Commodorean of
- the Year 2004.
-
- One of the great things about
- Commodorea is that it is not an
- advertising gimmick, a commercial
- ploy, or dedicated to corporate
- profits. One does not need to have the
- latest hardware to be accepted here.
- One doesn't even have to go on the
- Internet. One must simply understand
- that the computer is the object, not
- the subject, and ask --
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- "What can I do with this thing?"
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- instead of --
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- "What can this thing do for me?"
-
- To many in our over-hyped,
- gigahertz world, those two questions
- sound like the same thing. They are
- not Commodoreans!
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- DMM
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