Peter:

You've lived an awesome life man, I'm envious!  Is there any copy of
SPSS around in the open-source for Mac?

Michael J. Cangelosi
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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.

Peter Webster
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