I am angry. Any sane person who has lived with the horror of deadly violence knows that it cannot become entertainment. The fact that it is based on real events makes it intolerable as a game. Peter Tamte's boasts about it have re-traumatized hundreds of thousands of survivors, at a time when violence is on the rise in our nation.

Nick Arnett, grief counselor with the Bay Area Critical Incident Stress Management Team and extended family of a Marine killed in action in Fallujah 11/10/2004.

I *think* the first computer I owned was an NEC PC-8201A... and I still have two of them. I mentioned something about it once at a lunch with Bill Gates, who was all smiles talking about how it had the best implementation of BASIC ever. Later, I asked one of the original MS employees what the deal was about that. He said it was probably the last piece of code that Bill actually worked directly on. I haven't seen Bill for years, but if our paths cross again and I want to make him smile, I guess I know how.

The first computer I ever used was on the top floor of Scaife Hall at Carnegie Tech -- now CMU. It was a mainframe, IBM, if I recall correctly. It was one of the university's five computers at that original center. I was part of a research project to see if kids could use computers, a mystery back then (I was 11). We learned some interactive system and later Algol on it.