San Diego Macintosh User Group Resources
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.
Category Archives: computer science
Contemporary Software News
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.
Yokosuka Computer Rag newsletters
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
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
Basic Computing
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
80-U.S. Journal
Completed posting of several 80-U.S. Journal articles. My first microcomputer was a TRS-80 Model I, purchased in Daly City, California in 1978. I’d been encouraged to purchase an Apple II by Steve Jobs, personally, at the West Coast Computer Faire, Continue reading 80-U.S. Journal
American Association for Medical Systems and Informatics
Completed conversion of paper presented at the: American Association for Medical Systems (AAMSI) in 1983. It was all but impossible to scan the printed version, so the text is taken from the final manuscript, OCRed (converted to text via Optical Continue reading American Association for Medical Systems and Informatics
InfoWorld
Completed conversion of my one: InfoWorld story. This involved scanning the tabloid original, converting it to text (using OCR, Optical Character Recognition), and then adding it to the site. Tracking down “typos” from the OCR process occupied most of the Continue reading InfoWorld
SNAC Time
The Southern New Hampshire Apple Core computer user group published several of my articles, but I could find the artifact for just one. SNAC Time (Southern New Hampshire Apple Core) I’m sure they sent me copies of the rest, but Continue reading SNAC Time