>>>George;
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>>>And we both love Chicago Pizza! We may not like the same toppings but it is the thought that counts! :)
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>>>By the way I am getting ready for a flamenco show in San Jose, California in March. I may have mentioned I attended the Masters Classical Guitar Class given by Segovia during the Summer of 1963, at U.C. Berkeley. I still play a bit of classical guitar but flamenco is my true love.
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>>>I received so much encouragement from people like Carlos Montoya and Sabicas, for my flamenco guitar playing. They were very generous men and lots of fun to talk to. Very introverted as are many engineers and programmers, until you saw them release their passion! Not much different from VFP programmers and our VFP community .
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>>>There is something about music that I love and cannot express. I also play piano. Programming "just pays the bills". Gee, that can be important! :)
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>>Tom,
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>>Chicago Pizza....drool...drool.:-)
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>>Good luck with the show. I'm sure you'll do great.
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>>My Dad (as I may have mentioned) was in the music business both as a performer, manager, and recording producer. My Godfather, Dave Dexter, worked for Capitol Records for years and did the production work for the U.S. releases of the Beatles albums. So I come by my love of music honestly.< s >
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>>BTW, I just noticed the Sunnyvale location. Isn't that where Atari was (is)?
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Tom,

>Yes, and I had friends there.
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>If I published a list of companies I drive by each day, you may recognize them. Yahoo, Western Digital, Intel, Hewlett Packard (everywhere!), Compaq, Rational Rose, and the list goes on. Believe me – this is a very short list! A few blocks on the other side of me towards the city of Mountain View, Microsoft, and Netscape are to be found. A few blocks west in Cupertino you will find the Apple campus. UNOS Pizza (from Chi town) is near Apple by the way. I am getting hungry!

Well, so am I and there's not an Unos within 200 miles at least, so knock it off.:-)

>You will also find many empty buildings and offices (this is recent) where thriving hi tech companies were once located. These were not .COM’ers (the scourge of the software industry)! Most were hardware entities.
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One of the reasons I asked about Atari was that I began my adventure with an Atari, and received a lot of great advice (back when I was young and stupid, as opposed to now being old and stupid) from a guy named Bill Wilkinson. He wrote a column for Compute! magazine called "Insight Atari". He worked at a place name Optimized Systems Software (OSS) who did the original Apple DOS as well as Atari's interpreter BASIC and DOS.