Bill Ward

Get a Gmail Invite

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By now you’ve probably heard of gmail, Google’s new mail service. It’s in a “beta test” mode which means they won’t let just anyone sign up. But people who have accounts are issued a few invitations they can give out, so it spreads by word of mouth.

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Soccer Silicon Valley Rally 2004-08-20

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Here are the pictures I took at the Soccer Silicon Valley rally today in San Jose. If you know someone who loves soccer with 20-30 million dollars burning a hole in their pocket, tell them to look into buying the Earthquakes. We only have until September 17 to find a new investor or they’re moving the team out of state!! Read more about it on the SSV Web site.

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Soccer Silicon Valley

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A new grass-roots effort, intended to rally support for keeping the Earthquakes in the bay area and help the team build a new soccer-specific stadium, has been formed. Show your support by signing up as a supporter on the Soccer Silicon Valley Web site, and attend the Rally scheduled for Friday, August 20, at noon in downtown San Jose.

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A Life of Sailing

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I’ve sailed all my life. My parents owned a sailboat since before I was born. When I was a kid we would take cruises to Monterey or Moss Landing (really the only one-day destinations from Santa Cruz) for a weekend, and occasional day-sails. I’ve always dreamed of sailing off into the sunset, but I don’t think I have the guts to do it…

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Overview of Commodore Computers

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In the late 1970’s and early-mid 1980’s, one of the dominant players in the world of home computing was Commodore Business Machines. The most famous and widely used was the Commodore 64, which is to this day the record holder for number of units sold of a single computer model. But there were many others which are not as widely known. Here is a brief run-down of the Commodore 8-bit product line:

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My Commodore History

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When I was in 4th grade (1980-81; age 9), our elementary school got its very first computer – a Commodore PET with 32K of RAM, named Rudy (for the salesperson who sold it to our school). It was a PET 2001 computer, but it had a “real” keyboard, rather than the so-called “chicklet” keyboard. It ran BASIC 2.0 and used an external cassette drive to load software. But I wasn’t in that class.

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