Hi Jeff. I'm a 'recently-turned-regular' reader of your super-awesome blog. This solemn and grave article, along with that moving speech at the start, have made me not open my mouth for the past 3 hours... I'm coming back again and again to read this piece, but there is a niggling question I'd like to ask. Now, I'm about half your age, so excuse my question if it sounds petty, but I have a strong feeling that I need to ask you this: You say that we are all to blame. Blame for WHAT? Is it necessary to assign blame to someone? Is it so that without "blaming", we can't move on? When the reason is undefined, what worth will the guilt be of?

Thanks for sharing the experience of those heady days of a geek teenage. They remind me of my own memories, certainly one of the fondest ones I have, trying to find cracks and trying to make sense of binaries with nothing but the ever-useless windows notepad... Also, it's quite funny to see where your uploaded Apple II ROM image has ended up, starting on a (probably) US-based BBS... The good thing is, it is still up. :D