Dealers of Lightning by Michael Hiltzik

Dealers of Lightning by Michael Hiltzik

Author:Michael Hiltzik [Hiltzik, Michael]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi, pdf
Tags: Non Fiction
ISBN: 9780887309892
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2000-03-23T00:00:00+00:00


Left alone in the center one day, Tesler hit the wrong switch and inadvertently turned off the machine. "Instinctively I flipped it back on again—and the moment I did I went, 'Oh, shit!'"

The belt instantly snapped with a report like a pistol shot. The har­vest was a maintenance call to IBM, considerable expense to the com­puter center, and for Tesler a summons to the director's office.

"He told me I could never use their computer again," Tesler recalled. "That day I resolved that someday I was going to have my own computer, because I didn't want anybody to ever do that to me again. And from then on many of my decisions about my life were weighed against the ques­tion: 'Does this help me get my own computer?'"



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