Kathleen Charters and Lawrence Charters
Explorations large and small
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
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
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
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
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
The Main Line Macintosh User Group published one article in MLMUG Journal on Time Machine. Not sure if I should call this science fiction or computer science. In theory, they published some others as well, but I haven’t found them Continue reading MLMUG Journal
Several articles were published in the Columbia Apple Slice newsletter, AppleTree These were exclusively on Apple Macintosh subjects, as the user group was explicitly an Apple Macintosh user group. However, because of the publication name, I started getting orchard and Continue reading AppleTree articles
Article and presentation by Lt. (j.g.) Kathleen Charters at the Commissioned Officer’s Association Conference. This was held a long time ago, so long ago that, while microcomputers and printers did exist, the printers, in particular, were better than handwriting, but Continue reading Public Health Service conference, 1980