PCs. +Crays and Macs.

The "thinking machine, "(ordinateur"? -- French for "that which puts in order" -- I once heard.

Its primary stage of developement would have been (someone might correct me) during the 1940s; used by large, large organizations by the 1960s; increasingly available to advanced students, hobbyists, , researchers... by the 1980s. The thinking machine could be said to have entered the third quarter of the 20th Century as an oddity for the intellectual elite, and emerged from that quarter as a promising contender. Coming into the life of the First World (West).

It has expanded communication in a way hardly to have been fortold by science ' :) .' fiction writers. It has become a tool for office and laboratory. For the latter case, I probably have little idea.

It has been a tool in the hands of large corporations and gove/rnmental surveiy-illance a-gencies. As the corp's sell their wares and profyl their personnel.

Considerable work has been done by the EFF, for the protection of the person from intimidation by large powers. I shall put it like that. The Electric Freedom Foundation is doing much to protect privacy of Internet users; but more -- I am suggesting its place in resisting Big Br=other in a trend(?) toward an all-knowing po-lice/state.

guidelines and reflections

Appropriate technology, intermediate technology, reflections on (hu)man's techne' I will be making entries on, here.

Will be meditating on the effect which mechanization is coming to have on humankind.

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E M Schumacher (of "Small is Beautiful") published a catalogue of tools helpful in the Third World. He speak of intermediate technology. An example is a plow, wooden except for the point, the part going into the sod at very first and most prone to wear. A collar -- versus ox yoke -- was IMO part of Schumacher's plan. Another example I think would be a foot-operated pump for irrigation.
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No, not really. Not even a aplet smiley.

Readying for world-band radio notes. :

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Lee (one night...)

Once saw The Love live. (Arthur Lee.) The Byrds and Mothers of Invention at one time would open for this band, when in Hollywoood.

They were playing at an 'opening,' when I heard them; a head paper was beginning, in a fresh-built building. And the thought was, it'd be nice to have a live band.

technical, various

general fixit
Definition of technical
A wide-ranging, interactive fixit resource

About USD: basicisp.net basicisp inc.

bmw clubs/organizations

Here are groups (meetings, dues, Saturday morning get-togethers,
sponsoring swap-meets and rallies
/Indiana just mainly

Hoosierbeemers club

Indianapolis BMW Club

Columbus IN, core as I understand are a few engineers from a certain E. European co working at Cummins :)

Indiana clubs



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BMW resources

Here is a list of BMW service spots in Indiana. --Also those places in adjacent states when closer to our border.


Guenter Wuest, Fredrickburg (S., towards Louisville) wuest@blueriver.net
http://www.rfalconepowersports.com . Indianapolis --Large, having also several other marques.
BMW


========= Revard Bmw :
7710 Johnson Rd | Indianapolis, IN , 46250
PH: (317) 595-0269 | FX: (317) 595-0269
====== Woodson Bmw Motorcycles
3710 Illinois Rd | Fort Wayne, IN , 46804
PH: (260) 436-7707 | FX: (260) 436-7707
======= Moody Cycle Sales Inc
304 S Purdum St | Kokomo, IN , 46901
PH: (765) 452-2659 | FX: (765) 452-2659





I'll eventually have a list of amateur mechanics or mechanics not regularly associated with the beemer netword. To access that information one would need a code number I'd mail to you.