Subj : Re: Jim Butterfield
To : Chicken Head
From : Tristan Miller
Date : Sat Jul 25 2020 09:38 pm
Greetings.
On 20/09/2019 06.33, Chicken Head wrote:
> So I have to ask...has anyone here met Jim Butterfield?
>
> I had my chance at the World of Commodore-Amiga Toronto, 1992. But I didn't.
> I still regret it. I think Jim was one of the most important boosters of
> Commodore technology...although I do think he still favoured the 8-bit machines
> over the 16-bit ones.
I also never met him, and also regret not having done so when I had the
chance. (I lived in Toronto from 2000 until 2003 and could easily have
sought him out at some TPUG event, though I never attended any. Since
2003 I've been living in Europe.) I tried to make up for this by
working Jim Butterfield in-jokes into the articles I submitted to the
TPUG Newsletter in 2015. It turns out his widow, Vicki, still reads the
newsletter. She wrote me a mock letter of protest and I wrote back a
mock counterprotest. One thing led to another, and before long the
conversation had bloomed into an entire Jim Butterfield fanfic, which
incredibly also got published by TPUG. Vicki was so amused by this that
she invited me to her home, an offer that I was able to accept in 2017
while I was passing through Toronto on the way home from a conference in
Vancouver. She showed me Jim's old office, which still had some of the
original books and furnishings, and gave me a copy of his "First Book of
KIM" and a few other books he had owned. What a nice lady! I'm so
grateful to have received these mementos and to have had the chance to
listen to her speak about Jim.
In case anyone wants to read the articles, here they are:
"The Great Commodore/Microsoft Easter Egg War", which appears on page 7
of the Fall 2015 TPUG Newsletter:
http://www.tpug.ca/tpug-media/nl/91-Fall2015.pdf
"Some notes concerning the history and genealogy of the late F. Jacques
Beurrechamp", which appears on pages 6 to 8 of the Spring 2016 TPUG
Newsletter:
http://www.tpug.ca/tpug-media/nl/92-Spring2016.pdf
Regards,
Tristan
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