I wrote my wife a letter while I was at Reed in the mid-eighties. She found it somewhere in the garage a few weeks ago, and I scanned it. The letter is a little mushy and embarrassing in content; I post it here only because it is also an interesting (to me, at least) commentary on the original 128K Mac by a new user who knew a little bit about computers at the time…
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(Full JPEG pages are available at 1.2MB each: 1, 2. Also PDF pages at 19MB each: 1, 2.)
Remember when fonts and styles were new things in computer word processing, and when a monochrome dot-matrix printer was considered cool? Me neither. Also, check out the awesome hand-colored and partly hand-inked artwork. Clearly, my artistic skills were as amazing then as they are today.
I also note my obvious disaffection with commercial software at the time, and my sad lack of tolerance for others and attention to my academic life. Oh well. The best remedy to romanticizing one's past is being presented with evidence of it. (B)
