I'm creating this page to put interesting bits of things from life that pop up occasionally and need a place.
My son sent me the first picture below from an article published in a Minneapolis/St. Paul newspaper back around 1983 in the very early days of personal computers. We had purchased an Apple II which was the first really fun personal computer with the ability to generate 4 color displays and expandable to 64K of memory. It could be configured with several 5 1/4 inch floppy disk drives. Using the Apple we were engaged in Bulletin Boards which were on-line environments, but they could only handle one user at a time in most cases. I ran a BBS at that time called Terminal Station which ran on a Zenith Z-100, a DOS machine but not IBM compatible. Here's the picture from the newspaper.
The guy in the background is me and the young fellow in the foreground is my oldest son Raymond who is himself a software engineer these days. He cut his eye-teeth on an Apple II. I'm not sure of the exact date, but I think I got the Apple originally in 1981. Later I bought Zenith Z-100's and only bought an IBM compatible about 1985 or 1986.