The RoseByter is the Apple Blossom Computer Club’s current newsletter. It is delivered via “snail mail” or “E–mail” to paid up members and other user groups which reciprocate each month as a means of notifying members of the impending meeting and what ever else members care to communicate to the group.

Here are some links to past issues.

2008 Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug
2007 Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
2006 Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
2005 Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec

How to submit an article to The RoseByter

First there are a few things ...

  • Articles written by ABCC members GET published in TRB. In other words, it’s our newsletter and articles by our members take precedence, good, bad or indifferent.
  • Articles should have TITLES - make one up, please, or you’ll get what ever the editor comes up with and you might not like that.
  • Don’t get too carried away formatting your material. If you want to do page layout and/or be an editor, take the job (Please!) or contact The RoseByter editor. WYSIWYG is nice but it has to fit and has to print and is therefore going to get massaged by the editor(s).
  • If you send in something you found somewhere to get published in The RoseByter, make sure you also send in the permission from its author to have it published.

Believe it or not, the preferred means of sending your article is via plain text email as part of the body of the message. In other words, write the article any way you want and then copy and paste it into an email to The RoseByter editor as ordinary email text.

Of course, if you have illustrations, that doesn’t work. The preferred means of including pictures for your article is to attach them to the email created as in the last paragraph. Try to use standard formats for the files, such as PICT, JPEG, TIFF, PNG.

If you want to have things like bold, italics, underline, etc. come out the way you intend, the best way to indicate them is with an RTF document (say from TextEdit). The worst way is to send a Microsoft Word XX file. In between those two extremes are a host of possibilities too numerous to handle with certainty. That being the case, just send your article in whatever form you’ve got it in and we’ll try to deal with it - no guarantees. If you don’t have email, we can still handle diskettes. Even Zip disks (100 Meg). The key is to avoid the Newest! and the Greatest! and stick close to the lowest common denominator. It’s amazing how well that really works.