[Dialup Llama]

>Since his father, a heavy smoker, died at the age of 33 when Mallett was 10 years old, Mallett has longed for a way to travel back in time to warn him about the dangers of cigarettes...

and to tell him to buy Microsoft at $5.

[Max McGarrity]

Since his father, a heavy smoker, died at the age of 33 when Mallett was 10 years old, Mallett has longed for a way to travel back in time to warn him about the dangers of cigarettes...

Anyone else here wonder why he didn't "long" to find a cure for whatever killed his father? Seems to me that would have been a far better goal. (Though I have to admit, time travel has always fascinated me.)

[ihatemyalarmclock]

and to tell him to buy Microsoft at $5.

Um, given the current age (57) of our intrepid scientist, computers filled entire buildings when he was 10, and Bill Gates was not yet born.

Not meaning to be a "downer," Xerox was an excellent buy in the early days. Poor-houses are full of people who said: "why pay all that money for those big machines when you've got carbon-paper?"