"Blair Newman"

looked LIKE
he stuck not ONE but TWO
"fingers in a light socket"
OR
Combed his hair with a
"MixMaster"

it IS "entirely" possible
that HE, Bill Etra, and Trip Hawkins
have
IQ
of
185

is best described as
"a fast boat on the ocean without a RUDDER" !

basically in DC
grew UP without a "father"
if you meet his Mother
you will "understand"

Howard Rheingold
in his "definitive" book
that I'd SAY
"Kicked up the Internet"
BIGTIME
is in "part" dedicated to Blair


David Newman and I sat down with him at the IKON Cafe in SFO
and the FIRST think I said to Howard WAS
"You really....'got" Blair down PAT" !
Howard "lit UP" and breathed a "humoungous" SIGH and said

You are the ONLY ONE who has said ANYTHING 'positive'
about what I said about Blair
EVERYBODY had kicked me in the Butt
for what I wrote about him

I then replied

Then they DON"T KNOW SHIT !about Blair !!!
Blair "unsuccessfully" tried to take his own life 20 times
he was
"successful" ?
the 21st

At the "funeral" David Newman and I sat next to each other
I thought I was "all cried OUT"
BUT
when the "Hammond B-3" started playing the
"Funeral DURGE"
I "lost" IT
suddenly there is a "heavy hand" on my left shoulder
that "instantly" calmed me down
and I stopped crying
when I turned and looked UP
it was
"Trip"
funny thing IS
the place was "packed"
and as if by "magic"
there's ROOM to my left
for Trip
afterwards
as David and I were walking out
through a tin crack in a door
I spotted "Mrs. Newman"
so I immediately opened the door
and said
Hi Mrs. Newman, you remember me
but I want to "introduce" you TO
another

"Newman"

AS David as  my "witness" she said as we left

"I'm almost ashamed to say this BUT
NOW I feel......GOOD"

YES I DO
"have"
THAT
effect,affect,infect
on
"People"


In LIFE
as in "politics"
POWER
and
FAME
true "Power"

sits always
"behind the throne"
such as it WAS
with Blair Newman
"Microsoft,Apple,Electronic Arts,etc.

I had coined Electronic Graphic Arts
and at the US Festival
Steve Jobs asked me to come a day "early"
THANK U STEVE
AS
I rented 3 of the biggest baddest Winebagos
and
A VV Employee had a "SkewBus" to boot
so when WE got there
NOBODY was there
except the "Setup" crew

so growing up "native" style

Trip told me he was "dropping" the G
and calling his new company
"Electronic Arts"

ONLY ONE "degree" of separation !!!
My girlfriend I brought WEST from Boston was
"Sherrie Prisbe"
whose Boyfriend at YALE was
"Bing Gordon"
who then became
Trip Hawkins roomate
at Stanford Business School
and then Trip made HIM "President"
of
"Electronic Arts"

NO, I'm NO making this UP !!!
( HEE,Hee,he ! )

What people DO NOT KNOW IS
Blair got Matsushita
to "cough UP"
$ 100 Million IN usd
( back when our money was not "TOILET PAPER" for Europe )
Blair, Trip, and Chuck Peddle
who "ripped" OFF the 6800 design
from Motorola
and did the 6502
I was the "necessary" componet
as I had set UP the WORLD
"Distribution Network"
for
"Microcomputers"
EVERYONE
sold Cromemco at the "Top"
and
"Apple"
at the Bottom

for 18 months
Steve Jobs knew I was "avoiding" him
the the
Blair brought ME

Nov.  1975 ?
Harvard Biz Skewl year
at 2 weeks he came 2 me...said
"The World NEEDZ a General purpose X-Y
"Matrix Manipulator"

and went OFF 2 our Dec-10 to MAKE IT so
where he met Bill Gates
"despondent" had not YET "dropped" out...
was a "sophomore"
"across the river" Charles
BUT
from a "wealthy" Seattle family
was worried about being "disowned" IF he "dropped OUT of Harvard"
SO
Blair "recruited" ME to "convince" him otherwise

SO

I "fall by" to meet this "forlorn" SOUL
BUT
I just wave and motion for Blair to "come Hither"

I say EXACTLY THIS to Blair

"IF You me he...ever AGAIN....
with our "collective" ... EGO's ?
coincide on ONE spot on the planet
there WILL BE
a "meltdown" !

SO
I just waved and moved ON

BUT 

Billy G can check his phone records

ThursmFri,Sat,Sunday
at the "Final Stretch" of the IBM deal

at 2:30 to 4:30 AM

Blair was on BG's apt phone 2 ME 
( appeals to me ..can U "stop" him from sighning this IBM deal )
"non-exclusive"
he and Blair were 4 4 days "holed" up in an Apt.
"IF U think IBM would DO an 'exclusive" with U
You must BE on Drugs
( Blair found Trip @Stanford Biz Skewl, TH wrote the "definitive" projection
on the PC Biz  ! hmmm 1978 ? )

there was

ONLY

ONE


"Blair Newman"

News about Blair


Years later Bob Metcalf calls Bill Gates on the phone
and asks

"Are YOU CRAZY" ? ( true )

Blair tells ME you are going on the Board of MicroType
HE thinks Cocaine IS a "legitamite" Corporate Deduction"
( also ....TRUE )

Brian ( "I'm NOT making THIS UP " ) JOB

 
Here's the "unfiltered" correspondence from Paul
that "waked me the f---- up!"

to put up a Job1  Page for Blair
________________________________________________________


I did about 9 mo back

spend over an hour on the phone w/Trip Hawkins
( we had to break and call each other back 3 x's )

At Blair's funeral, I thought I was all "cried" out....
David Newman ws to my right...
I had slid toward him, as I saw that the home was Full

when the Organ music started....
I "lost IT"...became a "blathering" FOOL

all of a sudden...
there was a "steady/heavy" hand on my left shoulder

it was "Trip Hawkins" who simply said

"It'll be alright Brian"
we ALL miss him"

it was OK....

enough SO...

that I even got up the nerve

to speak last

( IBM taught me.."It is the perogative of the leader...to BE last" )
_____________________________________________







NO AL GORE HAD NOTHING TO DO
with the
"Creation"
of the
"Internet"
In FACT
AL GORE wrote the "preface"
TO
the "Definitive"
GLOBAL WARMING BOOK
written by my cousin
Albert Kielani Bates


nor
Vin Serf
Etc.

it was
Peggy ( Miss X.29 ) and Steve Karp
Gen Johhny Johnson
and one other
"Cordell" ?

Gen. Johhny Johnson mentions to Peggy
that the Scientists
were wasting 2 of 3 days
traveling to Stanford
we 'talking"
"Stanford Artificial Intelligence" Labs
and SLAC

SO Peggy says
"Why don't we just telnet THEM"

what's THAT

Just use phone lines
and "eliminate" travel entirely
BINGO

from that simple
WORD
"Telnet"

a "company"
called
TELENET
that GTE paid $ 140 Million for
then became
GTE Network Services
does it's "current" name
"Verizon"
ring a "BELL" ?

I KNEW it WOULD !

They had worked on "Packet Radio" w/SRI
YOU NOW CALL IT A
"Cell Phone"

Peggy THUS "invented"
X.29
BUT
she could NEVER pass the
"High Order Differential Equations" EXAM
that "DICKHEAD" of a Professor
would NOT let me "skate" to go to China
mad me take THAT test
"Ahead of TIME"
in a 4 hour exam
I LOST
2.3 Lbs
how do I know this
becausw I was "weighed" at the pool
after workout
went back to the pool
and just for fun
weighed myself again
didn't PEE etc...
SO
I
KNOW

run THAT through
E=MC2








_______________________________________________________________

Holy GEE Freaking willikers

I'll put up a Blair page right now

B

PS. Thanks a "Billion" Paul

Paul Terrell <pterrell@hotmail.com> wrote:
From: "Paul Terrell" <pterrell@hotmail.com>
To: <bducey@ubtanetwb.com>
CC: <briangjob@yahoo.com>
Subject: Blair
Date: Sat, 24 May 2008 11:47:52 -0700

FYI
 
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PostPosted: Sun Apr 30, 2006 2:14 am    Post subject: George Morrow designed The Automatic Ad-Zapping Machine Reply with quote

working with the late Blair Newman, another of the Bay Area freaks of the '70s, in 1989.

The Automatic Ad-Zapping Machine

linked here to a SacBee story (with comments from George Morrow and plenty of other stories about Blair and his goodies that are now common devices) from 1989 among a collection of things Blair Newman was involved in over the years and a news report about the first IBM portable from 1984.

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In Solana Beach, Calif., Blair Newman, director of strategic planning for Kaypro, said the IBM portable computer entry sounded like "a me-too product in a market already awash with them."

Kaypro, he said, is the largest maker of portable personal computers, having sold more than 100,000 last year. Mr.Newman said the Kaypro Model 10 is the same size and weight as the IBM computer about to be introduced, but that for about $100 less the Kaypro has greater disk storage capacity and comes with free software.

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My brother was a hi-tech headhunter in the '80s and worked with Blair to place him as the project manager of Toshiba laptops. Toshiba and Blair didn't quite mix as he was way too creative and innovative for them. I talked with him at length a number of times over the phone, and he really was a visionary. It was very sad when he committed suicide in the early '90s.