Our foray into microcomputers began in 1979 with a loaded Apple II and a 300 bps Hayes modem. Our shortwave radio-oriented Pinelands RBBS telephone bulletin board system, using an early Chinese IBM PC clone, went online in the early 1980s, and survived a bit more than a year after our move onto the web in 1991.
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Auerbach Management Series Auerbach Publishers
Microcomputer Spreadsheet Packages (1984)
Selecting Microcomputer DBMSs (1985)
Selecting Spreadsheet Packages (1986)
Selecting Integrated Packages (1986)
The Data Base Administrator's Role in Evaluating and Selecting Integrated Packages (1989)
Guidelines for Selecting and Implementing Spreadsheet Packages (1990)
MIS's Role in Acquiring Micro–Based Spreadsheet Software (1991)
Faulkner Technical Reports Faulkner Publishing
Choosing a Spreadsheet (May 1987)
PFS Mathplan (May 1987)
Javelin (May 1987)
XyQuest XyWrite III Plus (September 1987)
Ashton–Tate Rapid File (October 1987)
Alpha Software Alpha/Three (November 1987)
PFS Professional Plan (November 1987)
PFS First Choice (December 1987)
Javelin Plus (February 1988)
Norton Lambert Close–up (February 1989)
Time–Life ACCESS Boston Publishing Co.
IBM Edition
Building Spreadsheet Models That Record Employee Attendance Data (September 1984)
New WordStar Add–Ons (November 1984)
Tracking On–Line Costs with a Spreadsheet (December 1984)
Spreadsheets Aid in IRS Record Keeping (December 1984)
Do-It-Yourself Mortgage Tables (April 1985)
Add Messages to Your [Multiplan and Symphony] Spreadsheets (May 1985)
KEYSTROKES (short items, monthly from September 1984 through May 1985)
Apple Edition
Building Spreadsheet Models That Record Employee Attendance Data (September 1984)
New WordStar Add–Ons (November 1984)
Tracking On–Line Costs with a Spreadsheet (December 1984)
Spreadsheets Aid in IRS Record Keeping (December 1984)
Fix For Unruly Text Files (December 1984)
A New Guide to CP/M for Apple Users (January 1985)
A Better Way to Handle Mail Merging DB Master Business Writer (February 1985)
Do–It–Yourself Mortgage Tables (March 1985)
Add Color to Your Apple (April 1985)
Add Messages to Your [Multiplan] Spreadsheets (April 1985)
KEYSTROKES (short items, monthly fron September 1984 through May 1985)
The short story: I began shortwave listening and learned the code in 1952, but I didn't get around to getting a Novice license until the summer of 1975. Licensed as WN2AYA, then WB2AYA, and getting the Amateur Extra license in January 1977 enabled me to select a 1x2 call. (The X suffixes had just been released from the experimental service.) W2XQ has a license history dating back to 1919.
Shortwave was and remains as the sole mechanism to deliver programming that cannot be controlled by a gateway. Whereas satellites can be jammed and the Internet can be turned off, only solar flares limit the propagation of radio waves.