Michael Rulison Collection of Osborne Computer Club Newsletters 1981-1988

ArchivalResource

Michael Rulison Collection of Osborne Computer Club Newsletters, 1981-1988

Michael Rulison Collection of Osborne Computer Club Newsletters 1981-1988

http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/findingaids/mc00170

This collection contains newsletters of various Osborne Computer user groups for the years 1982 to 1988 as well as some related items. Included are the publications of the First Osborne Group ( and ), the Chicago user group ( ), the Seattle-Tacoma area group ( ) and the Raleigh Osborne Computer Group or the Raleigh Other Computer Group ( ). Foghorn Foglight PIP Toggle R.O.C.C. Pile Michael Rulison has had a long career in research in the Research Triangle area of North Carolina. While associated with the Research Triangle Institute, he authored (1970) for the North Carolina Department of Conservation and Development. During the 1980s, while with the Center for Population and Urban-Rural Studies, he wrote several technical reports of travel studies for the Travel and Tourism Division of the North Carolina Department of Commerce. He later worked for the Institutional Research program at North Carolina State University. Rulison has also been involved with Osborne computer user groups, RTPNet, the Triangle Open Source Lab, and the North Carolina Consumers Council. The Osborne Computer Corporation released the first widely available personal computer, the Osborne 1, in 1981, inspiring groups of computer programming hobbyists all over the country. A Study of State Uses of Smith Island

2.0 Linear feet

North Carolina State University. Special Collections Research Center