Although I had written about tech for PC and other magazines, my first newspaper column about tech ran on July 3, 1983. It was my first of 19 years of syndicated columns for the Los Angeles Times. I later wrote some pieces for the New York Times and, for the past several years, have been writing for the San Jose Mercury News.
Here are a few of those early columns from 1983. Included is my first column, “Learn Buzzwords Before Shopping,” my review of the first truly portable PC, the Radio Shack Model 100 and a piece on how I was able to read the Washington Post the night before it came out via CompuServe. There is also an early review of Microsoft Windows and a look at this new fangled device called a hard disk drive.
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