Sunday, February 19th, 2023 Alive 18,926 days
Show me a painting of a Mingo County moonshiner, and Iʼll show you a still life.
Show me a painting of a Mingo County moonshiner, and Iʼll show you a still life.
I just came across this article about the then-new AT&T 6300 in the September, 1984 issue of Microsystems magazine.
This is the computer that West Virginia Radio Corporation made five of us share in the newsroom at WCHS/Charleston in 1995 because the company didnʼt have money for a second computer. The same machine also had to ingest the Associated Press wire feeds in the background.
This was eleven years after the computer was introduced.
I guess WVRC was a worse company than I thought.
Well, I guess Iʼm officially a big time TV producer. No more small markets. No more medium markets. No more large markets. Iʼm officially in a major market and a verifiable employee of Tribune Broadcasting. The official certification came this morning when I arrived at my desk and found a box of business cards with my name and the WGN-TV logo. Aside from an employment contract, it doesnʼt get more official than that.
This is important to me in two ways:
It wasnʼt that many years ago when I had to go all the way up to the president of the West Virginia Radio Corporation to get permission to have business cards so I could do my job as a reporter. He said it was perfectly fine, and to order them that day. So I did. A week later, they were ready. A week after that I was confronted by the station manager freaking out about the $34 bill for my business cards.
I donʼt know what WGN-TV business cards cost, but I doubt anyone in this building cares.