A Blast from the Past: Barry Schiff on Computerized Town Meetings for Pilots

[Russell Holton]

I'm carbon dating to the late 80s/early 90s based on the reader service card. And there were phone numbers in all the ads.

The article references an event in '86 and talks about connecting to CIS at $12.50 an hour. I can't find back when that was, but it appears to be before 1991.

[Mike Overly]

I didn't see it in the article but do we know when it was written?

I'm carbon dating to the late 80s/early 90s based on the reader service card. And there were phone numbers in all the ads.

[Scott Dyer DXR/CT]

I didn't see it in the article but do we know when it was written?

Andy -- I did some google searches of sections of the text to no avail.

[Andy Alson]

I didn't see it in the article but do we know when it was written?

[Mike Overly]

That was fascinating. What ever happened to Orville E. Fudpucker. I lived and flew in Plano in 1995 and never met him. I was on Compuserve, but not on AVSIG.

Last I checked, Mr. Fudpucker was still a mysterious being who enters and exits lives and offices at will. He left TSJDs, business cards, and Round Tuits on my desk while I was out of the office one day in 1993, so I guess that means I never saw him then or since

[John O'Shaughnessy [FCM]]

That is a fantastic blast from the past!

[Rod Madsen]

That was fascinating. What ever happened to Orville E. Fudpucker. I lived and flew in Plano in 1995 and never met him. I was on Compuserve, but not on AVSIG.

[Mike Overly]

Mr. Schiff was kind enough to send this old missive of his over our transom recently. In it he speaks of modems and connect fees and "talking on a computer." There may also be instructions in there for parity, bauds, and hand-cranking the forum motor starter.