> Factories making VAX clones in Eastern Bloc?
Hey, I love the idea! And as far as the Eastern Block goes - we had one of the first computer networks in the world - long before Al Gore invented the internet. And as a young student at the East German Marine Academy, I was an integral part of it! In 1982, we got two desk-sized computers to work together (one at our school and one at a ship building institute five miles away) -with my bicycle, I carried punch-cards back and forth between the two.
Sounds crazy, but 16 years later, in my first job interview in America, this story got me a job as data base administrator :-)
I wouldn't try to define "Geek" and I don't think we have to. Let people decide for themselves. In the "Scenic Hikes" and "Scenic Lookouts" categories, we also don't have a definition of "scenic."