Dan Bricklin @danb@social.cleverlibre.org

@dweinberger I hope they like it. It has been too long. I follow you here and on birdsite, and think of you as I drive down Beacon St.

@dweinberger David: This has gone over well with our grandchildren at that age. Still read to them at their request a few years later: https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374380236/buildingourhouse

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Brooks about Fred Brooks: "The most important single decision I ever made was to change the IBM 360 series from a 6-bit byte to an 8-bit byte, thereby enabling the use of lowercase letters. That change propagated everywhere." May his memory be a blessing.