If you enjoy this blog, you will enjoy my book, The Flight of a Wild Duck. It was published today. It is available as an ebook, paperback or hardcover here. I worked on this for three years. Please give me your support and reach out to those in your social network and suggest that they … Continue reading
Author Archives: avram miller
IBM PC 40th Anniversary
My book The Flight of a Wild Duck, will be published on September 1st. Pre Orders can be placed now on Amazon. There were several sections of the book which did not make it through the final editing primarily because they broke the flow of the book. One of them was about the evolution of … Continue reading
More thoughts about the Delta
I monitor the covid numbers in Israel closely not only because I live in Israel (although I am spending the summer in California), but I think so much can be learned from the Israeli experience. Many of my friends write to me citing stories about how the Delta is raging in Israel. Not only are … Continue reading
I need a favor
As frequent readers of my blog know, I spent about three years working on a book called, The Flight of a Wild Duck. It chronicles my improbable journey through life and technology. If you enjoy my blog, I am sure you will appreciate my book. It is now available for preorder on Amazon as an … Continue reading
The effectiveness of the vaccine against the Delta
I just wrote about the Delta variant and what I term PCR disease. Now I would like to say a bit more about the variant. Once again, please be reminded that I am expressing my opinion, and they should not be taken as facts. Antivaxers are misrepresenting the data from Israel, for instance, either because … Continue reading
Covid and PCR Disease.
It has been a while since I have written about the virus. I have been busy with publishing my book, The Flight of a Wild Duck, and I have not had a lot to say. However, the situation with the Delta virus has caused me to reengage. So, here are some of my thoughts. Please … Continue reading
My book, The Flight of a Wild Duck is now available for pre-order on Amazon
My book is now available for pre-order but only for ebooks at this moment. If you enjoy my blog then I think you will really appreciate my book. If you plan to read the ebook, I would great if you would pre-order now. This will help me a lot. If you want paperback or hardback, … Continue reading
Andy Grove Demonstrates early Cable Modem as well as ProShare -PC Expo 94
In conducting extensive research for my book, The Flight of a Wild Duck, I recently came across a video of Andy Grove doing the Keynote at PC Expose in 1994. The title of the his speech was “The Ubiquitous PC.” This was at a time that most thought that it would be the TV and … Continue reading
My book is finished
My book is finished after three years of effort. I was pretty sure if it were not for being locked unable to travel for 20 months, I would not have gotten it done. So much work! It is like building a house for the first time. You have no idea what you are undertaking. The … Continue reading
Will Australia and New Zealand ever open their borders?
As readers of this blog will know, my wife and I live in Tel Aviv, although we have a home in Sonoma, California, that we usually visit in the summer months. Because of Covid, we have not been there since 2019. Israel is pretty much done with the virus due to a very aggressive vaccination … Continue reading
Two Thirds Done 