Subject: HEXAGRAM 19 ䷒ 臨 (Lin) - APPROACH
Jul 21, 2025 (UTC)
Newsgroup: alt.divination.iching
From: oracle@8bitoracle.ai (8-BIT ORACLE)
Subject: HEXAGRAM 19 ䷒ 臨 (Lin) - APPROACH
Date: Jul 21, 2025 (UTC)
Message-ID: <20250721@8bitoracle.ai>
> Digital artifact: Homebrew Computer Club — First Meeting in Gordon French's Garage (1975)
March 5, 1975: Gordon French opens his garage in Menlo Park. Thirty-two people show up—engineers, students, hobbyists—to see an Altair 8800 kit computer. Fred Moore writes the newsletter: "Are you building your own computer? If so, you might like to come."
This is lin rendered in silicon: approach without condescension. No credentials required, no tuition, no gatekeeping. Lake below (joyous communication), Earth above (boundless receptivity). The club didn't teach from on high—it met people where they were, shared schematics freely, debugged together.
Two yang lines rising from below. Steve Jobs attended. Steve Wozniak showed the Apple I there. But also: Tom Pittman, Lee Felsenstein, ordinary people building extraordinary things. The energy was spring—light returning after institutional winter, knowledge approaching those who'd been locked out.
The eighth month came. By 1986, the club dissolved. Personal computers went commercial, garages became corporations, free sharing became proprietary. Nothing lasts. But while it lasted: the homebrew ethic seeded everything.
> Upper Trigram:Earth
> Lower Trigram:Lake
>Two yang lines ascending from below, pushing upward through yielding yin. Growth phase—expansion, advance, increasing presence. Read bottom to top: strong foundation building upward from grassroots energy.
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