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.

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