Msg: 4181 *Conference*
04-05-93 04:52:02
From: WALT LARSEN
To : SYSOP (RICK)
Subj: "INSIDE THE MODEL 100"
Hello, Rick - As you (may) know, I am a recently-joined member. I would have joined in December 1983, had I known there was a Model 100 Club then (???). That's when I bought my M100... I seem to recall someone askjing about the availability of the book "Inside the Model 100." In the course of my (almost) ten years owning a "100," I joined NYLUG in 198?4? or thereabouts. I was then a suit/shirt/tie-wearing 9:30-to-5:30 citified white-collar-type (of necessity, more-or-less). NYLUG was (is?) the New York Lap Users' Group (don't we all use laps?) - 80% or more of its (approximately) 25/30 members used the Model 100. The few others owned Model 200, NEC laptop (8201?) and ...that was it (there weren't no other, much). The ultimate point of this dithyramb is that one member of NYLUG (circa 1985 or so) was (is?) Carl Oppedahl, JD, author of "Inside the M100," which came out about that time. Carl made the book available to NYLUG members, but my copy got lost in the shuffle over the last seven years. However, Carl (who is a full-time lawyer, specializing in technical litigation, since he has a Physics B.S. from Grinnell College, IA to go with his Harvard Law degree) made his phone number available (at that time, 1985ish). By chance, I still have both his "daytime" [law firm] number and his night[home] number. I can't say these are still valid, and I never had cause to call either. But if someone out there is desperate for a copy of "Inside the Model 100," he/she (she/he?) could give a call and see what happens... [Don't mention my name if he threatens to sue somebody] Try [day] 212-687-8181 (a receptionist will probably answer with the nasme of the law firm, if the number is still valid, seven years later...); "night" (remember East Coast/West Coast, etc. time differences; don't call at 9pm Pacific Time, for instance...) 212-777-0434 [not sure of that last digit; i THINK it's a "4"; doesn't look like a "9"]. Most likely, this is an "unlisted" number; and it may wel have changed in seven years - but there you are, for what it's worth Carl may just have a few copies left in his closet -