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Amateur Computerist 15 Year Index

1) Volume 1 No 1 Feb. 1988
Introduction; Dawn of a New Era; Dedication; World of
Telecommunications; Try This (IBM); Future Belongs to Programmers; The
First Programmer (PICTURE); Why Learn Programming; Cover of Personal
Computing (PICTURE); Commodore TIPS & TRICKS

2) Volume 1 No 2 Jun. 1988
The Big Machine; Pass the Profits, Please; Technology: Develop or
Stagnate?; CARTOON by "DOC" Wilson; Sample BASIC graphic program; Try
This (IBM); The World of Telecom... Corrections; German Vocabulary
Helper Program; Programming in BASIC or C?; Configuring Your System;
Letter to the Editor

3) Volume 1 No 3 Oct. 1988
Letter Published in Radio-Electronics; Responses from Around the
Country; Election & Computers (Editorial); Savior in Waiting; How to Use
the Merit Network?; Virtual Drives & Batch Files; Try This (EQUATION OF
A STRAIGHT LINE); As I Was Saying... (Why Computerism?); Computers and
Free Speech; Letter to the Editor; Plant Life (PICTURE)

4) Volume 2 No 1 Jan. 1989
Return to Sanity With the Amateur & the Pro; Letters from Readers;
Problem Corner; Try This for IBM; SYSTEM DIAGRAM for Quadraphonic Sound
System); Response to October Editorial; CARTOONS (COMMODORE COUNTY);
Welcome to Commodore County USA; Computer Hacking, A Crime?; IBM Key
Assignments Using the "PROMPT"...; History of Computers Part I

5) Volume 2 No 2 Apr. 1989
Why Learn to Program? (DISCUSSION); Letters; Try This (MESSAGE); "SE Q"
for IBM; As I Was Saying (JOBS: HOURS AND SENSE...); Overtime and Under
Pay; May Day; Sample Batch File; History of Computers Part II

6) Volume 2 No 3 Summer 1989
Impact of Computers On Society: A Debate; Letters to the Editor; COCO
Corner (Grail Quest-Pip); Commodore County USA (Cursor Color Change);
Out of the Heart of the Abacus...; History of the Computer Part III

7) Volume 2 No 4 Fall 1989
Letter from Prosecutor; Opposing Viewpoint...; Letters to the Editor;
Wanted Alive (AD); COCO Corner (Equation Graphing Prg.); True Heroes;
Trigonometry Lesson for IBM; History of the Computer Part IV


8) Volume 3 No 1 Winter 1989
Letter from Editor of Detroit News; Don't Replicate UAW-Ford School;
When Will Their Walls Come Tumbling Down; Letters to Editor; Commodore
County USA (CARTOON); The Spirit of Babbage; COCO Corner (POKE & PEAK);
CAD/CAM/CIM; History of Computers Part V

9) Volume 3 No 2 Spring 1990
The Laborer, Yes; Floyd Hoke-Miller (1898-1990); The Picket; In Honor of
Labor's Poet Laureate; Computer Education and Government Regulation;
Letter from Superintendent; Open Letter to Superintendent Bemis; Letter
to Governor; Commodore County U.S.A. (SHIMMERING TEXT); C-64 Music
Digitizer; IBM Label Program; COCO Corner (CALORIE COUNTER); Bulletin
Board Numbers

10) Volume 3 No 3 Fall 1990
What Criticisms Have You of the A.C.?; Tips and Tricks (IBM BOOT
PROBLEM); Letter to Editor; Editorial; A Common Man of Greatness; COCO
Corner (CORRECTION); Excerpts from BBS (DISCUSSION-TRADE UNIONS);
Commodore C-64 Reset Switch; DIAGRAM #1

11) Volume 3 No 4 Winter 1990
Hats Off to Patriot; Amateurs are Needed More Than Ever; COCO Corner
(MORE POKE & PEAK); Bringing Automation Home; Computer BBS Discussion on
the War; Computers for the People: Part I

12) Volume 4 No 1 Fall 1991
Computers for the People - A History Part II; Letters to the Editor; Ten
Commandments of Good Networking; Try This Program (GRAPHIC "HI"); USSR
and the Computer; Command Line Calculator; The Question of Censorship

13) Volume 4 No 2-3 Spring 1992
Computers Vs Plant Closures; Amateur Computerist Index(10 year); Problem
Corner; Union Forever; CARTOON (Shorter Hours); Letter To The Editor;
Letters to Amateur Computerist; Letter to Editor of Utne Reader; Review
from the Peripheral; Tribute: Modern Computer Pioneer; Interview with
Staff Member; One Line Program; Computers For The People; CARTOON
(Commodore County); Pascal Program

14) Volume 4 No 4 Summer 1992
Impact of the Computer on Society: Two Views; Electronic Mail; Letters
to the Editor; Desktop Publishing; Computers for People: History; TRY
THIS: (Programs); From the Shop Floor; CARTOON (I HAVE A Grievance);
America and the Dollar; Problem Corner; Interview with Staff Member

15) Supplement Fall 1992
INTRODUCTION; THE NET WORKS; `Arte', Computers and Usenet News; Computer
as a Democratizer; CityNet in New Zealand; Learning About Usenet;
Freenet BBS's; Two Books to Help Users Liberation Technology

16) Volume 5 No 1-2 Spring 1993
Interview with Henry Spencer; Tradition of May 1, 1848; Social Forces
Behind Usenet; The Net and the Labor Movement; Letters to Editor; The
New Dawn; Pittsburgh Press Strike; John G. Kemeny; Computers for the
People; Pascal Program; Try This Program in C; May Day in History;
Charter for Newsgroup

17) Volume 5 No 3/4 Fall 1993
 From ARPANET to Usenet News; Battle For Programming; COMMON SENSE;
Imminent Death of the Net; Letters To The Editor; News From Europe; From
The Shop Floor; Report: Summer 1993 USENIX; Proposals on NSF Backbone; C
Program; Computers for the People; Soul of the Internet

18) Volume 6 No 1 Spring 1994
UNIX and Computer Science; An Interview with John Lions; An Interview
with Berkley Tague; On the 25th Anniversary of UNIX; Usenet News: The
Poor Man's ARPAnet; What the Net Means to Me; Plumbing The Depths Of
UNIX; Using UNIX Tools; C Program; New Net Book; The Linux Movement; The
Ten Commandments for C; May Day in the Morning; Free Software Foundation

19) Volume 6 No 2-3 Winter 1994
What is a Netizen?; Licklider's Vision and the Future; Net Cultural
Assumptions; Etiquette and the Internet; Ethics and the Internet; The
Internet Society; The Internet: Maintaining Diversity; Do You Want to
Lose Your Voice?; The Net: A Scientific Perspective; Book Proposal;
Netizens: The Impact of the Net; Rights of Netizens

20) Volume 7 No 1 Spring 1996
Net Access: A Privilege or a Right?; Canadian Community Networking;
Netizens and Community Networks; Letter to the Editor; Access For All
FAQ; The Future of Democracy; Old Freedoms and New Technologies; Forming
the Usenet Online Community; History of Cleveland Freenet; Universal
Access to E-Mail; Prototype for Policy Decisions; In Honor of Doc'
Wilson; (PICTURE OF DOC WILSON); ( 3 CARTOONS)

21) Volume 7 No 2 Winter 1997
Power Tools of Our Times; Effect of Net on Professional News Media;
Report from INET'96 Part I; CDA Decision (Excerpts); E-mail
Evangeladdict; Culture and Communication; Online Education; Report from
INET'96 Part II; Internet Impact on Daily Lives?; FCC Submission on
Universal Service; Letter to the Editor; Freenets and Politics of
Community; Broadsides for Our Day; Genora (Johnson) Dollinger (1913-1995)

22) Volume 8 No 1 Spring 1998
Interview with Tom Truscott; Editorial; Factsheet Five: ACN; Cooperative
Nature of Usenet; Creating Broadsides; History of the Net is Important;
Netizens: Review of Reviews; Book Reviews: Netizens; Community in
k12.chat.teacher; Wiener and Licklider; Amateur Computerist 10 Year
Index: 1988-1998

23) Special Issue July 1998
Stakeholders in the DNS Controversy: Netizen List DNS Discussion; Study
of the ARPAnet TCP/IP Digest; An Introduction to TCP/IP

24) Volume 9 No 1 Winter 1998
Editorial: 25 Years of TCP/IP; Role of Govt in the Internet; Report from
INET98 and IFWP; The Internet: Public or Private?; Report from the
Front; The Internet a Public Treasure; Testimony Submitted to Congress;
Letter to Congressman Bliley; E-mail Message from Becky Burr; Letter to
Wm. Daley Sec. of Commerce; Letter: Tom Bliley to Ira Magaziner; Letter
to the NTIA; Herding Cats and Sacred Cows; DNS: Short History and Short
Future MsgGroup Mailing List

25) Volume 9 No 2 Special Issue 1999
ISOC Silencing the Press; Cone of Silence; U.S. Press Censorship; Letter
from the DOC.; Letter from Ira Magaziner; Report from SIGCAS/POLICY 98;
GAO Review

26) Volume 10 No 1 Summer 2000
Welcoming the Millennium; Who Can Watch the Watchdog?; Internet Pioneers
Panel; Citizens' Agenda 2000 Forum; Cleveland Freenet Closed; From the
Internet; Oral History of the Internet; 30 Years of RFCs; Principles of
the Internet; ARPAnet Mailing Lists

27) Volume 10 No 2 Spring 2001
EDITORIAL; Internet: A Laboratory for Democracy?; Ford Model E Program;
Battle over Computer Classes; State of the Net in Hungary; A Loss for
Netizens; Moment of Silence for Michael Muuss; Culture Clash over Usenet
Archive; Privatization of the Internet; MsgGroup

28) Volume 11 No 1 Special Issue 5/1/02
Introduction; The Emergence of the Netizen; Michael, Computers and the
Net; Work And Life of Michael Hauben; Some of Michael's Accomplishments;
In Memoriam: a Netizen; Giving Back to the World; Thoughts Regarding
Michael's Work; Mike: Sketches; "Netizens" in Hebrew Dictionary; A
Tribute; Writings by Michael Hauben; Preface: What is a Netizen?; What
the Net Means to Me; Declaration of the Rights of Netizens; Democracy:
SDS and the Net; The Untold History of the ARPAnet; Berlin Report: The
Vision Lives