Omega

The new Home of Chuck Maddox's "Official" Web site...
Jul 04 2008,08:19 AM

Hi

The NEW HOME of Chuck's Web site will be :

www.chronomaddox.com

Due to some issues with Chuck's old ISP our original timeline had to be abandoned.

The site should be 100% up with in the next few days...

The team working on this is moving forward as fast as possible,

Good Hunting

Bill Sohne

This message has been edited by Bill Sohne on 2008-07-04 08:20:38 This message has been edited by Bill Sohne on 2008-07-04 08:20:59 This message has been edited by Bill Sohne on 2008-07-13 11:33:56

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That is great, Bill
Jul 04 2008,17:58 PM

he lives on. I emailed him many times with questions, he always replied quickly and expertly--or just shared his opinion about a watch--though we never met. A very god guy. I'm so happy to see his work take on 'eternal' life.

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thanks for this...
Jul 04 2008,19:49 PM

sincere thanks to you Bill and the others involved in maintaining this wonderful resource of Chuck's articles and links. There is so much great and original content that he provided on Omega and other vintage chronos that it would be a huge shame if it got lost.

Will update the link on my blog site this weekend.

Cheers
Raph

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Thank you, Bill and other involved parties. [nt]
Jul 04 2008,21:03 PM

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Very good news, thanks. (nt)
Jul 05 2008,05:03 AM

NT

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A big thank you ! [nt]
Jul 05 2008,09:52 AM

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Great work to the team who made it happen
Jul 05 2008,17:10 PM

Once joked with Chuck about the funky and ancient Mac HTML editing program he used to use to make his pages.
As a soley Mac user myself, asked him why he didn't upgrade a more current (and easier to format) program like GoLive or Dreamweaver, but he loved whatever it was he used. As the consummate techie, not matter what the field, I think he enjoyed tweaking the code the hard way- just because he could.

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Chuck Loved Classic !!! and OS 9
Jul 09 2008,16:50 PM

Hi

It took me a good year to convince them that AOL IM ( Chat client)  was a good to to have running as I could send him auction links "live" and we would talk about the item at length.

Chuck was very " Ct. Yankee" in his ways...

Good Hunting

Bill Sohne

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LOL
Jul 09 2008,17:22 PM

I remember us talking about the MacBook Air. Didn't know anything about what computers he used until then.
Just so interesting when I found out he was using all those old Mac programs. Not that I'm one to jump on every upgrade, so so interesting that so much younger guy than myself (and techie) was so into the older stuff.
I still have OS9 on a machine around here, just so I can one use program - Fontographer (a font creation program) once in a blue moon.
Didn't want to chuck my perfectly good Epson 636 scanner, so still keep a machine that can take accept a SCSI card.
Maybe I'm more like Chuck than I think.

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I know Fontographer.... I used to work in the Elec Publishing indusrty...
Jul 09 2008,20:03 PM

Hi...

i used to be in the Electronic Prepress / publishing industry... Worked for Adobe ... Also was the Sever Evanglist for Font Reserve Server for Diamondsoft/ Extensis. Before that I was a System Engineer for an Apple VAR. I was one of a handful that could do hyperdrive upgrades in a mac 512k.... hehehehe.... I did that type of stuff for about 17 years. 

I used Lisa 7/7 software and Mac  Finder 1.0....  oh the gold old days...  when 1200 bps was high speed !! in comparison to 110 or 300 bps... hehehe

Good Hunting

Bill Sohne

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You have your Mac credentials!
Jul 10 2008,08:17 AM

Liked FontReserve (we all started years back with Suitcase), but FontAgentPro one-upped it.
Had issues after Extensis bought them.

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Font Reserve Server was so good people did not even know...
Jul 12 2008,09:15 AM

Hi

I did Mac since 1984...

With respect Font serving technology solutions for  large user install base 5 users up to 2 or 3 thousand users...    FR server has some truly remarkable technology under the hood... that the user never sees.  On the backend of support these users nothing was better.  But that was some time ago... I stayed with Extensis for about a year then left. 

Its funny... I worked at  Compugraphic/ AGFA  ALDUS, ADOBE,  3m Print Publishing , Diamndsoft ,Extensis  and other places...

Products come and go ... in the publishing business.. but my top favorites are..

Aldus Trapwise ( Adobe Trapwise )
Color Central
Adobe OPEN
Font Reserve Server...

All the above was "Workflow" and or "Task based"  products that could greatly reduces stress in a project workflow or task... Really stunning technology that allowed users to work the way they wanted to...  Looking back i was really lucky to work and represent these products in the market.

Now I have a tear in my eye !!

What are you using the mac for ?

Have a great weekend...

Bill  Sohne

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Wow, Trapwise...
Jul 12 2008,12:58 PM

That takes me back! It was the only game in town back in the day.

We have 6 Macs for our graphic/web design business. Have used (and only used) Macs since 1990.

Was caught in that huge wave of technology change, since we designers used to have to manually paste up artboards for printed material.

Except for Virtual PC (on a G5) for accessing PC proprietary web admin control pages and for testing web pages, never have needed to buy a PC.
Even though a couple Intel Macs, don't need to buy another copy of Windows.

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Yea Trapwise... I was one of the Original Wise Guys from Aldus...
Jul 14 2008,04:51 AM

Hi ...

You will get a kick out of this...  I given the award of " Personally Selling the most copies of Trapwise on the Planet , EVER".   The Graphic Edge guys ( developers of RIpPrep aka Aldus/ Adobe Trapwise used to get very excited when i would be working a trade show!

Gota dash...

Good Hunting

Bill Sohne

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Hey, Bill! Another Wise Guy here!
Aug 03 2008,20:33 PM

Hey Bill, I can't believe I ran into you through a random Google search! How, where, what, are you?!?! Please get in touch with me, I've been @ msft the last few years, but would love to hear what you're up to. I remember working so many shows with you, and how funny you are. I really miss you, and hope you get in touch with me!

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