You started this wonderful trend of the information age, and I'm sure you know we all thank you. To this day computers, and the Internet never cease to amaze me. Every letter like that would have gotten to me and very likely gotten a personal reply. Some days I can't get to all the mail however. Back in Apple days I didn't believe in a secretary and my own phone rang and I answered all my own mail.
Open source attracts open minds.
Let me explain what I mean. The PC was a bad computer. What I feel made the PC take off was the fact that the systems were open. Within a year of the release of the first IBM you had several other companies making the same products. I feel they should have opened the first MACs back in 84.