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great tape!
bernie,
i'm sorry i've been so tardy in responding. this is been a hell of a week--
this is the first time i've been to the lab since the faire, and average
of 3 hours of sleep  per psuedo-day since then (more about that later).
indeeed the tape as great from all repoets, and what i was able to see
watching peeriodically over people talking at me. i was in tutorial mode
for about 5-6 hours both sat and sunday, and by then my voice was gone.
i'd like to use the tape in my santa clara class --art of cs-- in about a 
month. what ddo i owe you for it?

the faire was fun, but another of the "lisp conf" type things --more money lost--
gee, symbolics and lmi should hire me as a lisp pr firm. 
i was truly amazed at the quality of the peopl in the tutorials --there are
some very good people out there. of course, down on the trade show floor
it was not so optimistic --stupid, short-sighted basic-oriented game-playing
neanderthals! fortunately we were up iin the fourth floor. looking down on the
mess reminded me of a weapons convention --all milling around, buying the
latest tool of (mental) destruction  --not "nuclear", but "unclear" proliferation--
very depressing. but the people who came to hear about lisp were very good!
and your tape made an excelent bridge between  what they'd seen (rubics)
what they'd like (a lisp machine) and what you can do with the power. i thank
you very much.

unfortunately the "high" from the faire didn't last long. turns out the power
structure  at santa clara is really pissed at me for the course (short descriprion)
follows. (a) you can't teach computation to people without the indoctrination
in fortran (b) you must sumbit your proposal through the proper channels (c)
you must be full-time (d) you must not look or sound radical about computation
--after all it is only a trivial branch of EE. 

so i was finessed out of an office (subtle: no office →no exposure to students→
course fails → "see, we were right"). next, a blatant move to cancel the
class after it was started, but that was short-lived. and then a severe
"talking too" by the chairman, because i had suggested that people who
sign up be somewhat strong in their major (whatever it is). can't do that;
turns out all minds are equal --funny, i haven't noticed that. what's going
on is an interesting campaign on lies and innuendos, so as soon as one
gets back to me, i have to go put out the fire --example the engineering
dean was yelling at one faculty member that i was writng "letters to the
academic vice-president"; well two years ago, before i even got near the
place i'd written a proposal to the avp about how they should utilize
their soon-arriving dec-20. thanks to our backup magtapes i was able to
resurrect that "letter" (the dean has a history of distortion and lies --in

great tape!