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D I S K O V E R Y
by Dave Moorman
Commodorea, O Commodorea!
Once upon a time, the Commodore 64
was a pioneering computer. The
frontier was opened up by Apple II,
TRS-80, and the PET. But this vast
landscape was settled by the C-64
Homesteaders. These hardy immigrants
put down roots, built data structures,
church finance systems, printing and
news services, general stores of
software and hardware, and turned a
rugged free-for-all into a place where
families could live.
Others would come and turn our new
territory into a metropolis, where
strangers could remain strangers and
great inequities and disease would
spread. But we carved out a small
community -- a little rural town where
folks are just folks who do their best
to be friendly and work together.
Commodorea.
For others, computers are just
tools or toys. Free Cell and Word and
Works. But in Commodorea, the computer
is a mortar that holds together
diverse people with diverse interests.
One of the many leaders of
Commodorea is K. Dale Sidebottom, who
is a power-user, a publisher, and the
President of LUCKI. When you read his
philosophical view of our computer and
community, you will see a heart
dedicated to our modest realm. That is
why I nominated him as Commodorean of
the Year 2004.
One of the great things about
Commodorea is that it is not an
advertising gimmick, a commercial
ploy, or dedicated to corporate
profits. One does not need to have the
latest hardware to be accepted here.
One doesn't even have to go on the
Internet. One must simply understand
that the computer is the object, not
the subject, and ask --
"What can I do with this thing?"
instead of --
"What can this thing do for me?"
To many in our over-hyped,
gigahertz world, those two questions
sound like the same thing. They are
not Commodoreans!
DMM