Kathleen Charters and Lawrence Charters
Explorations large and small
LSA Open Stacks articles added. These were scanned from one issue that was printed by offset press, and the rest were mimeographed. Mimeographs are a technology best forgotten; the OCR (Optical Character Recognition) conversion was less than perfect, resulting in Continue reading LSA Open Stacks
As President, Secretary, and journal editor for the San Diego Macintosh User Group, I wrote quite a few articles for: Resources and will make those available as I find them.
Once upon a time, there were not only brick-and-mortar computer stores, but also brick-and-mortar software stores. Contemporary Software News was the newsletter of one such store.
Several articles from Kenko Shimbun have been published. This newsletter was published on mimeograph and xerography for the U.S. Naval Hospital, Yokosuka, Japan. These were scanned from printed originals, and converted to text via OCR (Optical Character Recognition).
Two articles (so far) from: At Your Leisure have been posted. The original publications were printed on newsprint, which is definitely not the medium of choice for long-term preservation. These were reproduced via scans and OCR (Optical Character Recognition).
I shared credit for one story in Navy Times It was written in the 1980s, when the yen in Japan started at 360 to the dollar and, by 1987, had risen to 105 to the dollar. As the military personnel Continue reading Navy Times article
Yokosuka Computer Club (Yokosuka Naval Base, Yokosuka, Japan) needed a newsletter, so I created one, the Yokosuka Computer Rag It was originally typed on a TRS-80 Model III and printed on a daisy-wheel printer. After getting a Macintosh and an Continue reading Yokosuka Computer Rag newsletters
Patterns of the Fantastic II is a volume of essays and papers presented in the scholarly track of the World Science Fiction Convention held in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1983. I was in the process of moving to Japan a the Continue reading Patterns of the Fantastic II
Completed posting several articles from: Basic Computing Converting these articles to web pages reminded me again of the great changes in communications over the past half century. For me, the evolution went something like this: Manual typewriter, paper manuscript, mailed Continue reading Basic Computing