This page contains articles, tutorials and essays dating to roughly 1996. Ideas and opinions expressed here were always my own (except as attributed to others). They don't reflect club policy or views of PAUG members. Alex Forbes was a PAUG member from 1991 to 2001 and served as PAUG Vice President with the 1996 Board.

(Peninsula Apple Users Group had an official PAUG web site).

Below, you'll find columns, articles, opinion and resources written for the computing community.

Articles

ABOUT: Here you will find all the opinions and viewpoints, some packaged in iridescent flames. Also, occasionally you'll find research and reporting on interesting technology.

• "Objective-C": Apple's NeXT Edge The spin of 1997: In OpenStep, Apple purchased a fully mature development framework which might have given its programmers an inherent edge in getting superior product to market on time. We predicted it could pay off quickly, if other marketing considerations didn't get in its way.
• Requiem for Power Computing
• REVIEW: KODAK DC-20 DIGITAL CAMERA You can't seem to please the critics with any digital camera under $1,000 -- but we like this new lowest-price digital. Read our review to find out why.
• HTML Q and A Answers to some of the more common questions we encounter in trying to get our web pages to work the way we want them to. Assumes a working knowledge of HTML, and the skills necessary to create or modify a public_html directory in unix, upload pages correctly in Fetch, and some experience in creating pages and graphics by hand.
• 30-Second HTML In which we attempt to quickly de-mystify the universal mark-up language of web pages. Beyond the basics, it's just a question of how much more you really need to do, to understand, read or write this simple language. (1/28/96) And, Congratulations to MacUser for finally getting the word out on how simple HTML really can be. See their September 1996 issue, page 100.
• Memory Management "A crash course". This article covers the basics in HTML outline form. Click a topic hotlink to go to the part you want to read. There are many more complete references, but I wrote this one after consultations with a Mac owner who had to turn off QuickTime to get all the other extensions to load. Managing a modern Mac isn't as simple as it used to be, but there are tools to help us, and these help keep a Mac, a Mac.
• Partitioning Drives A discussion, originally written for PAUG members, on the merits of breaking larger drives into smaller volumes. Is it worth the effort? Find your own answers in "Partitioning Drives".
• Dec 1996 PAUG Message One of my final messages as Vice-President of our Apple group,, looking at the harbingers of change to come. How much of this happened, and did it happen the way we expected and hoped?
• Fords and Chevies My final published word on the celebrated Mac-PC flame wars before switching primary computing platforms. Here you go, a glimpse of what the computing world looked like in 1997, but really wasn't.