Stone Tools

Dig, if you will, a picture.

If I dig deep into my own heart, really self-reflect, I find I simply don't possess whatever people like Bill Gates and Elon Musk do.

During the "throw everything at the wall and see what sticks" years of home computing, up to around 1995, a lot was thrown and a lot failed to stick.

In life, there are love affairs and there are marriages.

What would a piece of software have to do today to make you cheer and applaud upon seeing a demo?

The world that might have been has been discussed at length.

The ocean is huge.

The Atari line of 8-bit computers has always been a bit of a chimera to me.

In 1984, Gary Kildall and Stewart Chiefet covered "The Fifth Generation" of computing and spoke with Edward Feigenbaum, the father of "expert systems."

Throughout the Computer Chronicles's 19 years on-air, various operating systems had full episodes devoted to them, like Macintosh System 7, UNIX, and Windows 95.

Stop me if you're heard this one.

There's just no denying or sugar-coating it: I'm getting older.

There are wizards among us who can bend hardware like a Uri Geller spoon to perform tricks thought impossible.

Unless Dan Fylstra had the world's largest vest pockets, Steve Jobs's story about "Dan Fylstra walked into my office and pulled a diskette from his vest pocket" to introduce the spreadsheet "in 1977" is apocryphal.

When it comes to databases, I've never been much more than a dabbler.