For those who don't know, David in his early years worked with Bill Gates and Paul Allen at MITS (creator of the Altair early kit PC) in New Mexico. I believe D

For those who don't know, David in his early years worked with Bill Gates and Paul Allen at MITS (creator of the Altair early kit PC) in New Mexico. I believe David was head of marketing or somesuch. (If you've ever seen the mugshot of young Bill Gates, it dates to his New Mexico days.) He maintained lines of communication to Bill throughout his life - that relationship at MITS was basically a microcosm of how he would work with the tech industry, evangelizing for, and fleshing out the possibilities in, early personal computing tech. (Although his magazines were not mere marketing outlets, they could be quite critical when warranted). In addition to the above named publications David also ran Upside magazine (and its lively and cheeky website UpsideToday) for many years — relevant to HN as it ran some of the first big features on VC firms (with no small amount of critique/lampooning) like Kleiner Perkins. I'm eager to dig into these and learn David's perspective on the mid 80s tech industry.