[quote=flu] New money does interesting things to people. Post-IPO but Pre-BubbleBurst NorCal people can get pretty bad [/quote]

FLU: I had a job at Apple during high school (1982), cleaning printed circuit boards (back when Apple fabbed their own computers, the IIc and IIe). This was right after the Apple IPO and, pretty quickly, folks there started trading the VWs in for Porsches. That was about when the attitude really started changing up there.

This may be before your time, but I remember the days of Steve Wozniak, Steve Jobs and the rest of the nerds hanging out at the Byte Shop in Mountain View with Paul Terrell and talking computers. That’s where it all started and, back before the money, it was just computer jockeys, engineers and programmers. There were some big players, like Lockheed M&S, IBM, Raytheon and Ford Aerospace (where my dad worked), but nothing like today.