I've just notice the time-stamp on Alan's message.

Since it looks like he's gone time-traveling again, perhaps he'll be
able to find a copy of the forward himself....


Regards,
Nick


On Fri, 1 Jan 1904 00:10:53 -0800, Alan Kay wrote:

>Thanks Karl --
>
>That is the forward to Mark's first book. The one I haven't written 
>and posted yet is for the "Guzdial/Rose" book, the 2nd one.
>
>If you could find *that* one and post it, you could save me a lot of 
>trouble writing it!
>
>Cheers,
>
>Alan
>
>-----At 8:22 AM +0200 9/16/01, Karl Ramberg wrote:
>>http://guzdial.cc.gatech.edu/squeakbook/AlansForeword.html
>>http://guzdial.cc.gatech.edu/squeakbook/AlanKayForeword.pdf
>>
>>karl
>>
>>Alan Kay wrote:
>>>
>>>  Folks --
>>>
>>>  Apologies all around. I fully expected to get the promised chapter
>>>  done and on Squeakland before the book actually came out. At that
>>>  time I didn't know we were going to decide to leave Disney. I have
>>>  spent the entire summer on "other things" relating to the new
>>>  nonprofit company we have just set up. I am still doing this. In the
>>>  next several weeks I will at least have time enough to get around to
>>>  making a place holder for the promised chapter on Squeakland that
>>>  will explain all this. Then I will perhaps in Oct be able to finish
>>>  up the actual chapter.
>>>
>>>  Best to all,
>>>
>>>  Alan
>>>
>>>  At 4:54 PM -0300 9/15/01, Diego Gomez Deck wrote:
>>>  >Hi...
>>>  >
>>>  >>I just received my copy from Amazon and I'm dying to read Alan's "real"
>>>  >>online Active Essay foreword but I can't for the life of me find it. Am I
>>>  >>brain dead or is it not actually on the web? Anyone know?
>>>  >
>>>  >I can't find it too.... I tried in google, altavista, etc but 
>>>nothing appears
>>>  >
>>>  >>I appreciate the use of a content reference rather than a URL, 
>>>but it didn't
>>>  >>seem to work for me. Any help is appreciated.
>>>  >>
>>>  >>PS Thanks to all who had a hand in creating this book! It is 
>>>quite exciting!
>>>  >
>>>  >I feel the same, the book is wonderful!
>>>  >
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>>>
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