Author: Alan Oppenheimer
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2004: Let’s Continue in the Middle (July 4 webcast)
Our timeline may be linear, but this blog is not going to be. Let’s jump to the middle of the timeline, right between the start and the present. By mid-2004 Alan and Priscilla had been living in Ashland, Oregon for almost ten years. Best known for its Shakespeare festival, Ashland also sports a classic July…
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1983: Let’s Start at the Beginning (coast to coast)
“Distributing the Future since 1983.” That’s this blog’s tagline, so let’s start there. What happened in 1983? May, 1983. After five years wandering the Infinite corridors of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Alan graduated from that Cambridge institution with a combined Bachelor’s/Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. Alan’s thesis, “A Local Area Disk…
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Initial post: Distributing the Future
Distributing the Future since 1983 It’s January 1, 2025. The start of the second quarter of the 21st century. It’s also the start of this blog about distributing the Future. 1983 is when I, Alan, graduated from M.I.T., started work at Apple Computer on something called the Macintosh, and met Priscilla. We’ve been helping distribute…
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