Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:
On Sat, 10 Mar 2007 01:22:32 -0500, Wayne.B
wrote:

On Sat, 10 Mar 2007 00:35:03 GMT, Tom Francis
wrote:

Wayne Green was a cheap...um...never mind.
He was an interesting character though. I believe he was married to
the publisher of BYTE (maybe Virginia Green ?), and she claimed he had
nothing to fo with the magazine. Who knows, the truth about some
things with NSD was elusive.

He was a character - very much like Larry who occasionally visits here
in fact. I met him once when I was writing and editing QEX (the
experimental magazine) for the ARRL. He seemed fairly normal, but he
was always at odds with TPTB at the League. Of course, in Wayne's
World, he invented or instigated everything in the world of amateur
radio

I really enjoyed 73 until he lost Byte in his divorce. He started
Byte, made a ton of money, lost it in some other ventures and
eventually lost Byte. He went right off the deep end when that
happened.

I always enjoyed Steve Ciarcia's Circuit Cellar articles although I
don't think I ever built any of his projects. Apparently he's still
around:

http://www.circuitcellar.com/

I never did either, but they seemed like solid designs.

When I was at the ARRL, I had the misfortune to edit one of Doug
DeMaw's (W1FB) DIY articles for a CW QRP rig. Looking at the design,
there was no way in hell the thing was going to work so I made some
changes, made revisions to the article and returned it to him for
review.

A couple of days later, I was called into Dick Sumner's office and
read the riot act - THOU SHALT NOT CRITIQUE, TEST OR OTHERWISE ALTER
ARTICLES BY W1FB....

Turns out the joke around the ARRL lab was you spent as much time
debugging the design as you did building it. :)

Anyone remember Volkswriter? Neat word processor written by a Chilean
named "Camille...something or other" out in Monterey, California, guy
who did it as a moonlight project while an employee of the Navy language
school.
Yep.

My all time favorite was Wordstar for CPM.

I still say that was the best word processor ever.
I agree. What you saw is what you got, no surprises. Wish I had a
dollar for every time I've cursed out MS Word. Unfortunately it has
become a standard.

I resisted the change for a long time. I used the last version of
Wordstar for DOS until it just wouldn't work anymore and I don't
think they ever made a GUI version.


Gawd. I never liked Wordstar with all the weird control key crapola. In
fact, when I bought my first IBM PC ('82 or '83, I think), the dealer
tossed in a copy of Wordstar on a floppy (no hard drives then), and it
drove me so nuts that I brought the whole kit and kaboodle back two days
later, demanding a refund. He had a trial copy of Volkswriter there, so
I tried that and liked it a lot.

Later, I got used to all manner of key sequences when I adopted XyWrite,
which was and is my favorite of all time DOS word processor.

My favorite BYTE writer was always Jerry Pournelle.