[11] [The following is reprinted from the Volume 1 number 1 issue
of the Amateur Computerist.]

                            DAWN OF A NEW ERA

From the Age of Darkness to the Age of Enlightenment from the
Machine Age to the Mind Age, here we are. Let not any force or
forces keep it under wraps. Let it be free to circulate in the
Public Domain. Let us base it upon principle, not on price, like
Truth or Love. From the Great Wall to the Great Pyramid, from the
hieroglyphics to the screen of the computer, mankind is still
progressing. So make the new born science, that has given us the
computer for the amateur and not as a prerogative of the
professional to be shrouded in secrecy from humanity, the choice
of the individual, not an election of a minority. From the
falling star to the falling apple, from the minute to the
multitudinous, from secrets to disclosure, I am pleased to
endorse the amateur method. Therefore I implore all to plan and
to participate even though I have been on disability for 26 years
and have not had the opportunity to participate in the great sea
of knowledge that has flowed over the Dam of Secrecy since I was
inactivated physically and mentally in my advanced years and
state of general debility I still see the mind of man the
greatest computer of all So Let Us Continue to Make Use of It to
the Advantage of the Masses Come, Let Us Reason Together. With an
open mind and a free spirit. Let me reiterate, there is so much
more to know, that what we do know, is still insignificant. It
gives me great pleasure to endorse this free-for-all program of a
restless mind.

Floyd Hoke-Miller, UAW Retiree and Flint Sit Down Striker
(1895-1990) 
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Reprinted from the Amateur Computerist Vol 12 No 1, Winter 2003/2004
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