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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><br></div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><br></div></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">This is my fifth anniversary in the computer “business.” In December </del>of <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">1979 I officially traded in my amateur status, taking $20 from Byte magazine for an obscure essay called “Relative Subroutines for the Z-80</del>.<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">” </del><br></div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">time, since on August 17 we were tossed out </ins>of <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">our last job</ins>.<br></div></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Now here I am with </del>a <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">publication called </del>Under Color, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">five years wiser (</del>I <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">hope), but still believing that trust and good will have been the hallmarks of the personal </del>computer <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">field</del>. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Even the pirates and copy-protectors have been sincere. Trust made Under Color possible, a trust that (no matter how cynical my leanings) gives me a kind of hope</del>. <br></div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Yet—a month late and </ins>a <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">few advertisements short—the first issue of </ins>Under Color <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">was mailed. Subscribers—756—had been processed through out temporary</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">creaky, Model </ins>I<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">-based subscription "system" in time to receive copies with </ins>computer <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">labels</ins>. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">The rest were typed or handwritten</ins>.<br></div></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Most of the computer friends I’ve made over the past few years have been unseen. I know your voices </del>only <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">through </del>your <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">letters</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">messages on CompuServe</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">or notes attached to subscription blanks</del>. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Occasionally we’ll talk on the telephone</del>. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">You are a most unusual </del>and <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">diverse group</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">linked only by a common thread </del>of <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">curiosity</del>. <br></div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">With </ins>only <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">our own funds and </ins>your <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">subscription investment</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">we have begun an experiment in long-distance publishing: Deb Marshall edits from Maine, Clare McCarthy designs in New Hampshire</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">and I fret in Vermont. Our authors come from Minnesota and California and New York and Texas</ins>. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">I haven't see Deb since September, nor Clare for two years</ins>. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Yet Under Color is underway—through mail </ins>and <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">telephone</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">but most </ins>of <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">all through trust</ins>.<br></div></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">You trusted me </del>to <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">bring you </del>Under Color<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">, and I trusted you to support </del>me. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">I couldn’t do it alone, of course; some trusted friends helped, giving effort and energy without any compensation beyond my gratitude</del>. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">We struggled against </del><br></div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">They say the computer industry will undergo a shake-out this year, that everyone's running scared. Maybe I'm a fool, but your initial response </ins>to Under Color <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">gives </ins>me <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">confidence</ins>. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">As we enter the new year together—and gladly leave 1984 to philosophers—I wish you all the very best</ins>.<br></div></td></tr>
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This is my fifth anniversary in the computer “business.” In December of 1979 I officially traded in my amateur status, taking $20 from Byte magazine for an obscure essay called “Relative Subroutines for the Z-80.” <br><br />
Now here I am with a publication called Under Color, five years wiser (I hope), but still believing that trust and good will have been the hallmarks of the personal computer field. Even the pirates and copy-protectors have been sincere. Trust made Under Color possible, a trust that (no matter how cynical my leanings) gives me a kind of hope. <br><br />
Most of the computer friends I’ve made over the past few years have been unseen. I know your voices only through your letters, messages on CompuServe, or notes attached to subscription blanks. Occasionally we’ll talk on the telephone. You are a most unusual and diverse group, linked only by a common thread of curiosity. <br><br />
You trusted me to bring you Under Color, and I trusted you to support me. I couldn’t do it alone, of course; some trusted friends helped, giving effort and energy without any compensation beyond my gratitude. We struggled against <br><br />
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