Five Year Anniversary of Take Control Books!

[Xairbusdriver]

Got an announcement today:

...For five days, from 5/1 through 5/5, selected Take Control titles will be on sale for just $5 each. (We’re still firming up the list, but we think about a third of the books in our catalog will be on sale.)...

This is a great opportunity to pick up some of those books that will make you an expert on many topics!

Take Control Books

[Highmac]

Hope you don't mind me mentioning another exceptional date. This year marks the 30th anniversary of Graphic Converter. Like Thorsten Lemke, I progressed from an Atari (ST-FM) to a Mac, a secondhand IIcx, bought from an employer who was upgrading.


On his website, Thorsten tells why and how he came to create the app:

 

In 1992 Thorsten Lemke, an Electrical Engineer with a Master's Degree, decided to move from Atari to the Apple Macintosh and wanted to convert his entire picture collection into one of the then standard Mac formats. Unfortunately there weren't any programs available that could do this. This was the motivation behind the decision to create a program to accomplish this job himself.

You can read the full story here

Now I'm off to buy a couple of books 

[Xairbusdriver]

Thanks for the GC mention! I'm downloading another of his apps; CADintosh! I may find it useful in building a model of an historic and rare American rail car.

[Highmac]

"Couple of books" ended up with four - the one I was looking for, Audio Hijack which was not in the sale, and three sale offerings, Take Control of... Numbers, iCloud, and Pages.


As an aside, I discovered that the UK (I think) Atari Forum is still active. Wow!!