Dan, I remember the LAUG. I never had a legs but I loved that apple //e. I learned to program in Basic on it and I also had taken an Adult Ed class through UofL and worked on a TRS80 but the Apple was much more fun. I had tricked mine out with two 3.5 inch disk drive and stopped using the 5.25 drives.
I had a friend who was a psychology professor at Michigan State. His area was the judicial system. He had a list of judges on the schools mainframe and used his //e at home to interface with that to create mailing labels. He had programmed in, I believe, fortran to make the interface work. I really liked the apple // version of Appleworks and missed it dearly after I got my Mac. I thought it could do many more things better early on than the Mac version. Oh well. I am probably on my 7th or 8th Mac now and I love it. Harry > On Feb 4, 2020, at 8:21 PM, Dan Crutcher <[email protected]> wrote: > > Harry, I remember those days as well. I think we first met at a LAUG > (Louisville Apple Users Group) meeting, probably in the mid-‘80s. I also > remember times spent in Tom Guenthner’s basement talking about LAUG and how > we could get more participants. > > In 1987 I bought an Apple IIgs (having previously owned a IIe) and thought > I’d been transported to computer heaven, with its 2.8 MHz, 16-bit processor. > I souped it up with a RamKeeper card and a 30 MB hard drive ($600). Because > the GS was text-based (in its ProDOS mode) it was incredibly fast: boot time > was approximately 2 seconds. It also had a Maclike graphical user interface > that I rarely used because it was so slow. > > You may recall that there was a bit of tension between the Apple II folks and > the Mac users at LAUG meetings in the early days of Mac. Us IIGS users found > the Macs (SE’s at that time?) intriguing but way too expensive and laughably > slow with its clunky GUI. And a lot of us IIers were pissed off that Apple > was devoting all its resources to the Mac and leaving the II series twisting > in the wind. At that time the Apple II was the cash cow that was supporting > the newfangled Macs and it felt traitorous that Apple abandoned it. > > Those LAUG meetings were also where I met Lee, who was the first one I can > remember to own a Mac. He was pretty sure that the Mac was the wave of the > future and I thought he was a bit daft. Look how that turned out. > > Dan > >> On Feb 4, 2020, at 4:29 PM, Harry Jacobson-Beyer <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Lee, >> >> Thanks so much for the long ride. I first discovered our little group when >> you and Tom Guenthner managed a bulletin board which I accessed with a dial >> up modem from my Apple //e. When Apple came out with the Apple //e enhanced >> model Tom upgraded my computer. >> >> One of my favorite memories was the group (led by Lee and Tom) building a >> 60mb hard drive for group members. You found a box, cables, controller >> board, and hard drive the computer shopper and we met at someone’s house and >> you helped us put it all together. It cost us about $500 per unit. I used >> that drive on my Apple //e. When I got my first Mac I reformatted it and >> used it with my Mac. >> >> I remember meetings at the Mac Store on Breckinridge Lane - it’s now Simply >> Mac and they have moved from that location. We moved to the government >> center on Shelbyville Rd. I think at some point the membership dwindled and >> then you, Lee, set up this list serve. >> >> To everyone who has ever submitted a question to the group and/or supplied >> an answer a heartfelt Thank-you. And to Lee we ALL owe you a huge thanks and >> a round of applause for all the time and effort you spent setting up the >> group and answering questions. >> >> See you in the could. >> >> Harry >> >> >> >> >>> On Feb 4, 2020, at 2:25 PM, Lee Larson <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> The Instructional Technology people at the University of Louisville have >>> decided departmental mail servers are an unacceptable security risk. They >>> are going to block external access to them beginning February 15. After >>> they do this, it won’t be possible to host MacGroup on its present server. >>> Unless another server can be found, the list will no longer be available >>> after that date. >>> >>> L^2 >>> >>> PS/ This list has had a long lifetime, compared to most mailing lists. My >>> archives date back to July 16, 2007 and contain over 16,000 messages. When >>> I first set up this list I had no idea it would last more than twelve years >>> and migrate through at least three machine upgrades. >>> >>> ---- >>> Lee Larson >>> [email protected] >>> >>> So long, and thanks for all the fish. — Douglas Adams, Hitchhiker’s >>> Trilogy, Volume 4 >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> MacGroup mailing list >>> Posting address: [email protected] >>> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/> >>> Answers to questions: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup/> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> MacGroup mailing list >> Posting address: [email protected] >> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/> >> Answers to questions: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup/> > > _______________________________________________ > MacGroup mailing list > Posting address: [email protected] > Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/> > Answers to questions: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup/> _______________________________________________ MacGroup mailing list Posting address: [email protected] Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/> Answers to questions: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup/>
