Tag: Margot Comstock

From the Kansasfest Comittee announcement: “KansasFest 2014, the Apple II convention, is scheduled for July 22 -27 in Kansas City, Missouri.  Margot Comstock, co-founder and editor of the much-loved Softalk magazine, will join us with a keynote presentation. Comstock and Al Tommervik founded Softalk in 1980 to share the hardware, software, and people behind the Apple II.  At its peak, Softalk had 250,000 readers and uniquely offered broad and deep coverage of everything Apple II related, including programming, game playing,…

Margot Comstock, co-founder and editor of the much-loved Softalk magazine, will join us with a keynote presentation at KansasFest 2014, which is scheduled for July 22 –27 in Kansas City, Missouri. Comstock and Al Tommervik founded Softalk in 1980 to share the hardware, software, and people behind the Apple II. At its peak, Softalk had 250,000 readers and uniquely offered broad and deep coverage of everything Apple II related, including programming, game playing, business use, and home use. The Apple II magazine ran for four years before…

by MARGOT COMSTOCK II Computing MagazineOctober/November 1985 About the author — Margot Comstock was cofounder and editor of Softalk. It was great jun, but it was just one of those things. Not even ten years have passed since Steve Wozniak put together the very first Apple II. The industry that has grown up supporting it and its successors has gone through just as many stages as a child of the same age. But, for the analogy to work, the child…