{"id":9646,"date":"2007-07-18T17:29:45","date_gmt":"2007-07-18T17:29:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/streettech.dreamhosters.com\/?p=9646"},"modified":"2007-07-18T17:29:45","modified_gmt":"2007-07-18T17:29:45","slug":"own-a-chunk-of-personal-computer-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/?p=9646","title":{"rendered":"Own a Chunk of Personal Computer History"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"320\" border=1 src=\"https:\/\/streettech.com\/storypics\/bcsSign2.jpg\"><\/center> <\/p>\n<p> Our pal Jake von Slatt sent us this: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When the Boston Computer Society closed it&#8217;s doors in 1996 the company I worked for took over their office space. <\/p>\n<p> Since I had been a member, I knew the important role this group played in the early years of personal computing so I cut the logo out of the drywall before the workers arrived to demolish the partitions for our new offices. This sign has hung in my office ever since. <\/p>\n<p> At this point I&#8217;d like to replace it with something better reflecting my current mania and would like to give it to someone for which it has meaning. <\/p>\n<p> If that&#8217;s you (and you&#8217;re in the Boston area) send me an email at jake.[at].vonslatt.[dot].com to arrange pickup.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.digg.com\/submit\" target=\"new\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/digg.com\/img\/badges\/91x17-digg-button-alt.gif\" width=\"91\" height=\"17\" alt=\"Digg!\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our pal Jake von Slatt sent us this: When the Boston Computer Society closed it&#8217;s doors in 1996 the company I worked for took over their office space. Since I had been a member, I knew the important role this group played in the early years of personal computing so I cut the logo out &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/streettech.com\/?p=9646\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Own a Chunk of Personal Computer History&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9646\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}