It’s extremely hard to believe that the first step onto the surface of the moon was made forty-one years ago this month in July of 1969!  I remember where I was at that exact moment – it was the TV room of our family home in South Bend, IN.  I had been avidly following the space program ever since the first Mercury flight in grade school.  The Apollo 11 flight took place during my high school years.  In the previous month of June 1969, our family took a trip to …

A great group of Coastal Computer Corporation veterans assembled for lunch today at Famous Dave’s.  Pictured are men who have known each other for over 20 years by working at CCC together.  It’s now dESCO and owned by Dean Schreiner.  Brothers George and Glenn Slay (Glenn not pictured) founded the company in the mid-80’s.Â
From left to right:  Harold Leyes, Tim Brooks, Gary Loderhose, Dean Schreiner, and George Slay.

Back in the days when I was working on my BA in Journalism, publication was very different than they are now.  Stories were written and had to be re-typed on photo typesetters which then had to be pasted-up on a layout board.  Photographs were shot on film, developed, and printed to then be also pasted-up on the same layout board.  One of these would be produced for each page of the newspaper.  Each one would then be photographed again to create the plate for the printing press.  It was always …