Hap,

I know that you guys consider me a nuisance, but I only wrote you because I have seen you on TV and I'm genuinely fond of you. Even your e-mail is far kinder than most that I get.

But what I would ask of you is what should I do and what would you do if you were in my shoes. Say that you knew from your experiences that this rock did fall out of the sky and the evidence of the rock itself shows that it has made a fiery journey through the sky. People in town that night saw a large meteor and I am very certain of my observations the day I found the rock and the days before that when the rock was not there. There is no doubt that this rock is a meteorite, the only doubt is where did it come from.

Most of my life I have been called a genius, but one doesn't need to be a genius to be sure of one's observations. (I graduated from college in three years with honors. Then I graduated from a two year electronics school in one year and was offered and approved as a teacher at that institution the day I graduated.) I have been in the computer field the last 20 years and even though I have not devoted much attention to computers the last few years, friends still call me when they have particularly difficult computer problems. The reason they call me is because I have never known failure in solving computer problems. I understand computers from the time the electron leaves the power stations to the point where a program uses the essence of logic to solve a problem. I installed probably the first hard drive ever put on a microcomputer in 1977 and have developed languages, operating systems and application programs. In the early days of microcomputers, I was known all over the computer world as MicroMike. By the time that IBM entered the market in 1981, I had sold computers to every continent except Antarctica and had on the market a 17 processor system that far out performed anything else of its day, including IBM entry. There were times when even the factory that made my computers would call me to ask how particular parts of their computer worked, because they knew that I was the best in the world with their computer (the North Star). I am not very good at dealing with people (because they many times aren't very logical), but when it comes to computers, I shine. So I am not used to being wrong and I am not used to people not listening to me when I speak. I am amazed at how hard this task has been to bring this meteorite to public awareness. So tell me, if you believed in yourself and your observational ability and the rest of the world disagreed with you, would you cave in or would you hold to your beliefs?

Your friend,

micromike