old characters (was: magazines)

At 06:30 PM 8/31/98 -0400, you wrote: ... Well, I'm not so crazy about him as a sf writer, but I did feel that his columns in Byte did well in showing, in a way that a techie could understand, what it was like for a user to be confronted with new technology. Nearly ran him down one time, though, on my skateboard, because I was busy checking out his wife. 8^) Wasn't (isn't) she a expert in special ed or something like that? I remember him; he (99.99%) probably doesn't remember me. But love him or hate him, he was a fascinating character. Not sure if he claimed it outright or just alluded to it, but I always got the impression he had been a spy or something in the 50's/60's. Any truth to that? Speaking of characters, btw, anyone know what ever happened to Chris Crawford? He wrote some really popular game for the Atari 8-bit computers, then went on to develop a hit game for the Mac (something about running the world or something? Sorry, I was never really into games.) He was another neat person. A physicist turned programmer. Lastly, anyone know whatever happened to the local San Francisco BBS Newsbase and its denizens? --------------------------------------------------------------------- O- Uncle Roger "There is pleasure pure in being mad roger(a)sinasohn.com that none but madmen know." Roger Louis Sinasohn & Associates San Francisco, California http://www.sinasohn.com/