Written in prose; an observation of the future of computer science in the United States.

It doesn’t seem all that long to me when Tandy made my friends and me happy with their TRS-80 microcomputer. Anybody else remember? Things sure have changed!
The smell of Nag Champra.

How about this small excerpt from an article in Scientific America 1977 about the new Apple II computer:
…And a built in memory capacity of 8K bytes ROM and 4K bytes RAM--with room for lots more…
What a sagacious tag line, “with room for lots more”. I wonder if the author was thinking Gigabytes?
The smell of Nag Champra.

Anybody remember Fortran, Assembly, C?
Anybody remember how we had to walk to school ten miles in a blizzard. (I digress).
I mean does anybody remember learning the basics before OOP?
The smell of Nag Champra.

Remember how we went to the colleges and universities to learn skills that we were told would be needed in the United States to lend support to the flowering computer industry, which was beginning a paradigm shift from the old slower ways of communicating and calculating, toward more efficient and effective protocols.
The smell of Nag Champra.

Of the people who understand the above, has anyone looked for companies that might be interested in the skills obtained from their years of study?
Has anyone been successful lately with that search?
The smell of Nag Champra.

Has anyone called for tech support lately? If so, have you noticed anything different? Possibly someone with a foreign accent was communicating with you. Wouldn’t it be something if they had a job, yet you didn’t?
The smell of Nag Champra.

In any case, I am thinking of packing up my belongings, ordering a subscription to the Times Of India, and contacting the Department Of Information Technology, in Punjab, or possibly some companies in Deli where I am certain they need people with my skills, and of course I must not forget to pack some incense so I can experience…
The smell of Nag Champra.
(Please note: The above is not intended to be an admonishment or to reprove in any way the people or culture of India)
~RLS