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The Laptop is Dead

By Tom Koltai

Since 1973 (when I sent my first CQ CQ CQ on Father Allardyce’s ham radio at St Patricks College in Silverstream, NZ) I have officially been a geek.   This was compounded during my University days in New Zealand, Australia and Hungary where I joined every radio club available.   In Hungary radio clubs were [...]

The Birth of the Sharing Culture.

By Tom Koltai

Culture: is a shared, learned, symbolic system of values, beliefs and attitudes that shapes and influences perception and behavior   Very few obstacles erected by man are successful in halting the ocean. Dykes, dames, flood-gates, Thames tributary locks, don’t stem the tide; they just block one narrow area of interest.   ENIAC, a wave, turned [...]