[Tokhtamish]

My favorite BYTE column of his was in 1983.

He wrote about reading about how someone in Czechoslovakia with an unregistered typewriter was being imprisoned. An unregistered typewriter ? He flatly asked how societies that terrified of the free flow of information could possibly adjust to the information age.

He was right on the money.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

Yes, I do recall his thesis that the microchip would, a Reagan put it, "transcend" communism.