Windows ’95

* Hey, I got my 15 minutes this week. Albeit vicariously, compliments of Bill Gates and the Windows ’95 release. All of the sudden every techno phreak, computer nerd, propeller head in the world was part of something that was hip. Complete with cool videos and the Stones even.

Well, don’t go out and spring for new pocket protectors over it. This is the beginning of mass commercialization of the computer. Those who have nurtured this business along for the past 40 or so years will soon settle into the same comfortable niche as the phone man, or the cable guy. Keepers of a technology America will live on but never truly understand or care to. We will become indispensable as the knowledge gap widens between the us and the end user. Let’s just hope we’ve built a Maytag and not a Yugo.

JOHN DELANEY

Aliso Viejo

* The Rolling Stones sing “Start Me Up” to announce the media promotion. After seeing the product in action, I am reminded of another Stones’ hit, “You Can’t Always Get what You Want.”

TONY CUMMINGS

Rancho Cucamonga