Greetings from 30,000 feet

I joined into MAUG prolly around '94 and hung in until not too long after Neil sold it in '98 or '99. I think you were gone or on low-profile by then, since I don't have your old contact info in my archives. Lofty recruited me as a Discussion Leader in MacNew and a few years later I jumped up to roving Sysop. I do remember that you maintained all the Apple ][ stuff, since that was your specialty - sweeping and uploading new software to the downloads area. We rarely, if ever, crossed paths online (I'd have to do some real work to get a copy of MacCIM running to check!) but I remember you being there when I was in the fold.

(And all of this just points to how long each of us has been under the influence of Apple!!)

Binx and Alan have been running snarkish.com for quite a while, but it diverged from the Mac so much that I never followed along. And Binx still owes me for sending a crapload of Tim's Cascade Jalapeno Potato Chips out to her as a present for her then-current boyfriend..

Anyway, glad to see a familiar name here on TUAW! I'm goin' to have to keep an eye out for your posts from here on out. Give a shout if you want contact info.

Blast from the past, David!
Remember Doffie, Alan, David, Dr. Bob, David, Lofty, and the vivacious Binky? Was there with you in the heyday of MAUG on CServe.. MacNav sweeps and all. I DL'd for Lofty on MacNew before joining the Sysop group. Ringing bells? Neurons firing and connecting?

-Doug

Glad to have you here! I'm sure you'll make a great site even greater.

David,
Thanks for the interesting post. I'm much younger than many of the other commenters here (my first apple was the computer labs at my elementary school in 1991). I look forward to reading your future posts.

David, welcome and wow thanks for the computing memories... Creative Computing magazine, COmpuserver, BBS's, Apple ][. Good times!

wow, looks like a pic of a bum. Get a hair cut!

Hi Dave and welcome!

I'm in my late 60s and bought stuff from Sarkis at the Los Altos Computerland.

However, I think your memories are a bit hazy. I bought an original Apple ][ (not a plus) in late 78. I remember having to pay for the upgrade to 32k of RAM since I was getting a Disk ][ to go with it and the DOS took up 10k of overhead.

And a 48k "processor?" The processor was a Mostek 6502 that ran at 1MHz (and could be boosted to 4Mhz).

At any rate, it appears that you, like me, have enjoyed 30+ years of computer hobby fun! (Did you ever buy a "Geniac" from those ads in the comic books?)

-Tod

Welcome! If you got past all the personal attacks to read this far in to your comments on your first post I look forward to reading more of your articles. My personal computer history goes back to the Apple ][ days as well. Will be nice to read articles here from someone with a similar perspective.

If all the people who posted in this article met in a room to discuss this post, would they have said the same things?

LOL. I think I was on your BBS a few times. I had one too, it ran off of 4 5.25" drives on my A2+. Those were the days! I miss those days back in Jersey. I used tymnet and a service called "The Source" back then.

Charles,

I LIKED his post. I did NOT like yours. Next time Charles, before you post, remember that I am not interested in what you think but that I am interested in what he thinks.

Good-bye.