On Feb 7, 2006, at 5:57 AM, Michael Cangelosi wrote:
Hmm. I worked on the project that put SPSS together. Cards. Stacks of cards. Awesome! It's amazing that this list has the talented minds that put together such monolithically programs as that beast. I doubt that we would have the forecasting abilities we have today without those pains you gave. Michael
It took a lot of ambitious Type A personalities to put that together. I was an academic hanger-on (I think that's what the then-gov., someone dufus named Reagan, called people like me). I was happy to go home, every evening, to the Haight, smoke dope, and write stories. Those guys went on to the U of Chicago as part of carefully negotiated career moves; I think the computer stuff was really secondary to their ambitions.
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