Actually, I often received snail-mail hard copies of sometimes controversial Prodigy posts from friends and fellow club officers, since I was not on-line at the time. It wasn't until my oldest son, Gary, gave me a computer for Christmas one year that I became more involved with the internet.

I was the CC & GTCC President, The Editor of the Club Newsletter, and Convention Chair for the first few shows at the old Aladdin Hotel Casino ... all at the same time... while working lots of forced overtime at my job as an Installer/Repairman with NJ Bell Telephone Company.

The Club Newsletters were originally published on "Maggie" which was a Magnavox Word Processor ... a physically cut-&-pasteup master-copy operation that was then hand deliverd to a local printer 20 miles away in Barnegat, NJ who made plates from my originals to be run off on his press.

After picking up the finished printed product, Brenda and I used to spend most of the night after dinner and well into the early morning hours, slipping club newsletters into 9" x 12" plain envelopes that we had to hand apply the club's mailing permit stamp and return address using rubber stamps and ink pads and apply address labels. Then all of the addressed envelopes had to be sorted by the first three digits of zip codes by state to all around the country, weighed, rubber banded length and width, no more than 20 pieces to a bundle, and placed accordingly into a dozen or so routed mail sacks, and prepare the bulk permit forms to be taken to the post office. Later on; Tom and Kathy Duffy helped us with the mailing that was prepared by the four of us at the Duffy's larger home in Toms River (ten miles away) and Tom took the sacks to the post office for mailing in his SUV (the mailing envelopes were pre-printed by this time so one large step in the preparation process had been eliminated). Most all of my correspondence with fellow officers and club business during this period of time was done by snail-mail prior to my getting a computer and AOL hookup.

Yes, the club has progressed a long, long way since those early days.