Tandy and Trajan

(various conversations in sff.net . . . )

My first year at MIT, 1983, I bought the laptop Tandy 100. Hauled it off the bookshelf a couple of years ago and reconnected the battery and it still works. Primitive word processor and spreadsheet capability. It must have been pretty new at the time; I remember what a curiosity it was on the bar car in Amtrak, going down to NYC.

Lord Acton said "Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely". The exact wording is worth contemplatin...