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BeforePlease add your memories of what you did for support and "community" before MassCUE or "MASS-CUE", as it was originally written (when many of us had dot-matrix printers that didn't even produce lower case letters. 1978- There was a CUE in California, the first one, I think; and it produced a newsletter so there was something to read about computers (the only technology usually mentioned in those days.) 1977-1996, the Boston Computer Society hosted meetings all over Boston and the suburbs and had educator members. (Wikipedia article) (dates?) International Council on Computers in Education (ICCE) which later became: The International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) AppleFest met in Boston. Did your school invest in a video disk (Laserdisk) player and disks? Magazines were abundant. At one point, I read that there were over 100 different magazine titles devoted to computers. Some of my favorites:
I was able to find some archived material on the Internet. http://www.atariarchives.org/bcc1/showpage.php?page=3  The author, David Ahl was a moving force behind Creative Computing Things certainly have changed. I don't know of any of the early computer magazines that are still active. This year (2009), the venerable PC Magazine became online digital only. What computer did you use?
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