Before taking off on my bicycle in 1983, I had spoken at this conference about the application of personal computers to online information retrieval (Dialog and other systems which, for a dollar or more a minute, would disgorge bibliographic records and other structured forms of data). In 1986, I returned to New York with Maggie…

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Standing on stage at COMDEX Europe in Amsterdam, dizzy with the sheer awesomeness of being there, I had no idea that less than a year after this speaking gig I would be pedaling down the East Coast of the US in a completely new technomadic life. So much for my crystal ball! I don’t really…

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This ad ran in the New York Times, and included an announcement of my lecture about using microcomputers to assist with online searching. This was yet a radical concept… threatening to the vendors for fear of database downloading (detailed article at the link). Turn your micro into a database access machine Do you know about…

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