[Coco] Baltimore Sun "Plugged-In" columnist - once a Coco user!?

[Arthur Flexser]

On Thu, 12 Feb 2004, John Riddle wrote:

> Earlier this evening, I was going through a batch of disks I won from Ebay,
> and found one titled "Coco 3 Accounting by Mike Himowitz".  That name I
> recognize as the editor of the weekly technology column called "Plugged-In"
> in the Baltimore Sun!  Also printed on the disk was "Distributed by
> Gimmesoft".  Gimmesoft was a local Coco software producer/distributer in
> Baltimore.  Don't remember the guy's name, but I remember them at the long
> defunct Computer Club of Maryland.  (They went PC in 1988, who knows what
> happened to them after that).  Anyway, I think it's a match - this is an
> ex-coco user.  I'm going to e-mail him and see, and I'll mention this list
> as well as coco3.com while I'm at it.
> 
> John
> 

You're right about Mike Himowitz.  I remember him from when he used to
participate in the CoCo SIG on Compuserve in the early 80s.  I believe he
was Federal Hill Software, a Rainbow advertiser for a while.

Art