wrote:
Jim Macklin wrote:
He has all that stuff and NOT an Internet connection?

neat thing about getting older, after 35 years of software engineering,
he just wants to be a good private pilot and fly his kids and grand
kids around. No home computer either. Home is rural and west of lake of
the ozarks, not exactly high tech either. Hes also tired of 4 foot by
4 foot sectionals in the cockpit. Is that explanation enough?

Seems reasonable to me! Reminds me of the start of chapter 1 of "Content
Addressable Parallel Processors" by Caxton Foster and published in 1976:

"There is an old New England story about the sailor who decided to retire
from the sea. He said he was going to put an oar over his shoulder and walk
inland until someone asked him what he was carrying. Last winter I was on
the island of Antigua in the West Indies. A taxi driver asked me what I did
and I replied that "I teach about computers." When he said "What are
they?" I knew right away that was were I wanted to settle down. Now, in the
middle seventies, just thirty years later, almost every one has heard of
computers, the majority of the American public has dealt with them in one
fashion or another, and more people are engaged in building, programming,
and operating computers than any other single type of mechanism except
possibly automobiles."

And 30 years after the above was written, I'm sure more people are involved
with computers than any other mechanism ever devised, including
automobiles. Makes it tough to find a place to retire after a lifetime in
computers! ;-)