The Editor Bytes Back
This column was written by Val. J. Golding from its inception in February 1978 until April 1984. In 1984 Val left A.P.P.L.E as the editor. and Kathryn Hallgrimson Suther took over. (Although the May 1984 issue still lists Val as the editor). He also wrote a closing article at the behest of Kathryn in 1990 for the very last Call-A.P.P.L.E. Issue. Here is that article in full reprinted with the permission of Val.
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Full Circle
Perhaps I’ve lived in a private dream world all this time, where visions of ampersand faeries were real and 16K of RAM sufficed. My 1978 world where, still wrapped in swaddling clothes, the infant Call-A.P.P.L.E. with wise men guiding, exploded upon the technological night sky — its contageous fountain of knowledge spreading like a Washington wildfire, a depth and rugged determination to share never before and never again to be seen.
Volume 13, Number 1; There will be no Number 2. Words I though would never be written blur my vision and scar the moist paper with ugly brown burn marks. “Our Last Issue.” A doorway to another dimension has closed after 12 years.
It would take pages to list our accomplishments and firsts, still more for our failures. But we stood proud while others perished. And so it will be in the future, the Alliance remains to serve its members.
None of this would have been possible without those brilliant pioneering researchers and authors, far too numerous to even consider thanking individually. Virtually every Apple author writing today appeared first in these pages. It isn’t fair, however, to leave without at least expressing my gratitude and admiration for Kathryn Hallgrimson Suther without whom we would not have survived this far. I Love you Ms. K.
Still everything is O.K. I wouldn’t have missed it for anything. The moving finger having writ, moves on…//
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Although this closed the book on what was the first go around of a brilliant magazine, it in no way means that the people of the A.P.P.L.E. world up and disappeared from the face of the earth. They all went on to bigger and better things in life and continued to do what they did best. Share the knowledge.
