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Thank you Steve Jobs

Oct 062011

This may be the first time I have ever felt sad for a corporation because they lost one of their leaders. But this is different; it is personal. Steve Jobs passed away today, October 6, 2011. I feel like I lost a life long friend because I have. Steve and I started our relationship in 1979. You see we were about the same age, a year apart. He was building computers and I was buying them. OK, we were eons apart but I felt the connection. I bought an Apple II because … I was never sure but I knew continue reading

A Month with a Mac

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Dec 292009

It has been about a month since we replaced our Windows PCs with iMacs so I thought a quick report was in order. I am glad to report – all is fine. As I posted on November 19, we replaced an HP and Dell PC running Windows XP with two iMacs. The installation and data transfers were simple. And the learning curve fast. We both have standard configurations with 4 MB and are pleasantly surprised at the speed. Cathy’s World Looking a bit deeper; I tend to use the computer for more functions than my wife, Cathy, who mostly surfs continue reading

Moving to a Mac

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Nov 202009

Update: A Month with A Mac can be found here. Am I trendy or smart? Probably a bit of both but using Apple computers is not new to me. You see, I bought an Apple II in 1977 when I was a junior in College getting my EE Degree. As I was being was interviewed by my local newspaper, the Memphis Commercial Appeal, as an oddity for owning a computer; the reporter asked me all the normal questions but never really understood why I needed a “personal computer”. How times have changed! Upon taking a job with HP, I had continue reading