Author: David Craig

David Craig has been an author and programmer of Apple computers and a collector of Apple computer related materials for over 20 years. He was a contributing author for Nibble Magazine in the early days of the Apple //e and has written dozens of articles and papers about the Apple computers. He is one of the most well known preservationists of Apple related materials and is a major contributor to the A.P.P.L.E. conservation project. Currently David resides in Santa Fe, NM and works for a vertical market software developer.

The Legacy of the Apple Lisa Personal Computer: An Outsider’s View

INTRODUCTION This paper is an attempt by a long time Lisa user to clarify the significance of the Apple Lisa personal computer for the computing industry. The audience of this paper is anyone who has an interest in innovative computing technology and wants to learn a little about Apple Computer’s brief foray into this area via the Lisa computer. This paper hopes to show why the Lisa was significant in its time and how some of what was called “Lisa…

The Pascal Newsletter: An Outsider’s Retrospective

David T. Craig 736 Edgewater, Wichita, Kansas 67230 (USA.) 20 April 1993 CompuServe 71533,606 INTRODUCTION This document attempts to provide a retrospective commentary about the Pascal Newsletter. This newsletter was published between January 1974 and November 1983. The newsletter’s purpose was described in the first newsletter as follows: This is the first issue of a newsletter sent to users and other interested parties about the computer programming language Pascal. Its purpose is to keep the Pascal community informed about the…