Apropos this article, today I received a box of "vintage" hardware and software manuals. It's a hobby, ok? But amongst them was an original photocopy of this

Apropos this article, today I received a box of "vintage" hardware and software manuals. It's a hobby, ok? But amongst them was an original photocopy of this article from psychology today, circa 1980: http://www.textfiles.com/news/hackpape.hac In which the LOTS user "gandalf" bemoans the isolation and singlemindedness of the typical Stanford hacker, and the rebuttals from those he describes. It was an interesting bit of the social story that underlies the "weird" folk tradition.