ComputerFAQs
Frequently Asked Questions About Computers & Tech
For those who are curious. I used to publish a newsletter by fax (yes, by fax) back in the 90s and early 00s. It was called ComputerFAQs, a double-play on words (FAQs being Frequently Asked Questions, and it was sent out by FAX. Get it?) I recently found a bunch of these issues online. I'm going to see if I can locate more.
For me, I saved these because it's a walk down memory lane. I really love putting these together. It was my first foray into answering peoples' questions (the precursor to TechHelp, if you will). They're worth a read if you'd like a good chuckle, too. What? I can get a 66 Mhz 486 system for only $1,200? LOL
Low Quality PDFs
For these issues, I wasn't able to find the original PDF files. In fact, if memory serves, I don't think I ever made PDFs. I have the original WPD files. These are WordPerfect documents. Word can import WPD and "kinda" convert it to DOCX and then to PDF, but it doesn't do a great job. Fonts, images, and layout isn't preserved that great. The text is all still there though.
- #07 - May 1, 1995
- #08 - June 4, 1995
- #09 - June 11, 1995
- #10 - June 18, 1995
- #11 - July 3, 1995
- #12 - July 10, 1995
- #13 - July 17, 1995
- #14 - August 1, 1995
- #15 - August 10, 1995
- #16 - August 14, 1995
- #17 - August 28, 1995
- #18 - September 11, 1995
- #19 - September 18, 1995
- #20 - October 1, 1995
- #21 - October 16, 1995
- #22 - October 30, 1995
- #23 - November 20, 1995
- #24 - December 1, 1995
- #25 - December 11, 1995
- #26 - December 25, 1995
- #27 - January 7, 1996
- #28 - January 21, 1996
- #29 - February 12, 1996
- #30 - February 29, 1996
- #31 - March 17, 1996
- #32 - April 24, 1996
- #33 - May 20, 1996
- #34 - June 13, 1996
- #35 - July 19, 1996
- #36 - August 9, 1996 - changed name from "ComputerFAQs Weekly" to just "ComputerFAQs"
- #37 - September 1, 1996
- #38 - October 1, 1996 - 1996 Buffalo Computer & Business Show
- #39 - October 19, 1996
- #40 - October 31, 1996
- #41 - November 15, 1996 - Registered domain amicron.com
- #42 - December 1, 1996
- #43 - December 15, 1996
- #44 - January 3, 1997
- #45 - January 20, 1997 - Featured in Business First of Buffalo
- #46 - February 10, 1997 - Your Data Permanently Stored on CD - CD writers were still new
- #47 - March 4, 1997
- #48 - March 25, 1997
- #49 - April 23, 1997
- #50 - May 27, 1997
- #51 - June 21, 1997
- #52 - July 11, 1997
- #53 - August 11, 1997
- #54 - September 11, 1997
- #55 - October 15, 1997
- #56 - October 23, 1997 - My 25th Birthday LOL
- #57 - November 21, 1997
- #58 - January 5, 1998 - Amicron NetBackup
- #59 - January 26, 1998
- #60 - February 23, 1998
- #61 - March 20, 1998 - How to Get on The Internet - gif
- #62 - April 15, 1998
- #63 - May 11, 1998 - 400 MHz Processors
- #64 - June 5, 1998 - gif
- #65 - June 22, 1998
- #66 - July 16, 1998 - Windows 98
- #67 - August 20, 1998
Production Quality PDFs
For these issues, I actually found the final, product-quality PDF files, exactly as they went out to readers.
- #68 - September 13, 1998
- #69 - September 30, 1998 - ComTech 98
- #70 - October 5, 1998
- #71 - December 1998
- #72 - February 1999 - 5th Anniversary
- #73 - March 1999
- #74 - April 1999
- #75 - May 1999
- #76 - June 1999
- #77 - July 1999
- #78 - August 1999 - Remember the 9/9/99 Problem?
- #79 - September 1999 - New Office at North America Center
- #80 - November 1999
- #81 - December 1999 - Y2K Countdown
- #82 - January 2000 - Welcome to Y2K
- #83 - February 2000 - 6th Anniversary
- #84 - March 2000 - 700 MHz Processors
- #85 - April 2000
- #86 - June 2000
- #87 - August 2000
- #88 - October 2000 - Windows Me
- #89 - December 2000 - Goodbye 20th Century
- #90 - March 2001
- #91 - May 2001 - Amherst Computer Training Center Grand Opening
- #92 - July 2001 - Office XP Released
- #93 - August 2001
- #94 - September 2001 - 9/11
- #95 - November 2001
- #96 - February 2002
- #97 - June 2002
- #98 - September 2002
Online Only & Video Edition
With issue #99, I decided to make ComputerFAQs and "online-only" publication and send it out via email. This is the only one I could find. Still looking for more. This page references a #105, so I just have to find them. I have so many old files to go through still from my old CD archive.
- #99 - November 2002 - html capture from Wayback Machine - click here for the Video Edition!
AmicroNews
In February 1996, I started a second publication called AmicroNews (get it? Amicron News? Yeah, I know). This was to be more about company-related news, advertising user group meetings (which were actually quite popular for a while) and things like that. ComputerFAQs would get people in the door, then once we knew they were interested, AmicroNews was more of a hard sell. Most of these are WordPerfect conversions, so only the last two (23, 24) are good quality PDFs the way they originally looked. Issue 21, sadly, was corrupted.
- #01 - February / March 1996
- #02 - April 1996
- #03 - May 1996
- #04 - July 11, 1996
- #05 - August 5, 1996 - New Executive Training Center was my dining room. LOL
- #06 - August 27, 1996
- #07 - October 15, 1996
- #08 - November 11, 1996
- #09 - November 26, 1996
- #10 - December 27, 1996
- #11 - January 17, 1997
- #12 - February 4, 1997
- #13 - February 21, 1997
- #14 - March 19, 1997 - Software pick of the month included MS Office 97
- #15 - April 13, 1997
- #16 - May 18, 1997
- #17 - June 12, 1997
- #18 - July 29, 1997
- #19 - September 1, 1997 - Moved from just ads to including mini-articles
- #20 - September 28, 1997 - You can see from the training schedule why I got burned out
- #22 - December 10, 1997
- #23 - November 6, 1998 - Back by popular demand!
- #24 - January 1999
Other Stuff
Yeah, there were a few other publications I put together, too. Some were great. Some were, slightly less than great. :)
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