Subj : Re: Jim Butterfield To : Chicken Head From : Tristan Miller Date : Sat Jul 25 2020 09:38 pm Greetings. On 20/09/2019 06.33, Chicken Head wrote: > So I have to ask...has anyone here met Jim Butterfield? > > I had my chance at the World of Commodore-Amiga Toronto, 1992. But I didn't. > I still regret it. I think Jim was one of the most important boosters of > Commodore technology...although I do think he still favoured the 8-bit machines > over the 16-bit ones. I also never met him, and also regret not having done so when I had the chance. (I lived in Toronto from 2000 until 2003 and could easily have sought him out at some TPUG event, though I never attended any. Since 2003 I've been living in Europe.) I tried to make up for this by working Jim Butterfield in-jokes into the articles I submitted to the TPUG Newsletter in 2015. It turns out his widow, Vicki, still reads the newsletter. She wrote me a mock letter of protest and I wrote back a mock counterprotest. One thing led to another, and before long the conversation had bloomed into an entire Jim Butterfield fanfic, which incredibly also got published by TPUG. Vicki was so amused by this that she invited me to her home, an offer that I was able to accept in 2017 while I was passing through Toronto on the way home from a conference in Vancouver. She showed me Jim's old office, which still had some of the original books and furnishings, and gave me a copy of his "First Book of KIM" and a few other books he had owned. What a nice lady! I'm so grateful to have received these mementos and to have had the chance to listen to her speak about Jim. In case anyone wants to read the articles, here they are: "The Great Commodore/Microsoft Easter Egg War", which appears on page 7 of the Fall 2015 TPUG Newsletter: http://www.tpug.ca/tpug-media/nl/91-Fall2015.pdf "Some notes concerning the history and genealogy of the late F. Jacques Beurrechamp", which appears on pages 6 to 8 of the Spring 2016 TPUG Newsletter: http://www.tpug.ca/tpug-media/nl/92-Spring2016.pdf Regards, Tristan -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Tristan Miller Free Software developer, ferret herder, logologist https://logological.org/ =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05 * Origin: Agency HUB, Dunedin - New Zealand | Fido<>Usenet Gateway (3:770/3) .